
A voter listens to Democratic presidential candidate Hillary Clinton speak in South Carolina a day after her debate with rival candidate Bernie Sanders on Feb. 12, 2016, in Denmark, S.C….
A voter listens to Democratic presidential candidate Hillary Clinton speak in South Carolina a day after her debate with rival candidate Bernie Sanders on Feb. 12, 2016, in Denmark, S.C….
Gwendolyn Brooks’s life and work asserted the humanity of black people in America. By Lovia Gyarkye The opening lines of Gwendolyn Brooks’s epic “The Anniad” are, like the rest of…
Ava DuVernay arrives on set ready to work. It’s summer in New Orleans and the heat is sticky. Even the room-temperature bottles of water are sweating. But DuVernay seems impervious….
Above Photo: Danny Glover (center) joins Nissan workers for the March on Mississippi, March 4, 2017 (Ariel Cobbert / Daily Mississippian) The workers at the Nissan plant in Canton, Mississippi,…
A proposed resolution advocates for overturning the 17th Amendment so Republican-controlled state legislatures could pick senators. By John Nichols The United States Senate is an undemocratic institution. Just do the…
By Esther Ojulari – “I know you’re fighting a just cause…We go all round the country and we see people fighting just causes all the time…But this is our job…our…
Sterling spent many years of his life entangled in the criminal legal system. By Ebony Slaughter-Johnson / Truthout On May 2, the Department of Justice declined to level federal charges against the…
By Stefan Richards Abstract: Reparation refers to the repairing of damage through the payment of money or through other methods employed by the offending party. This paper adds to the discussion…
The African-American history of the federal holiday has been nearly wiped from public memory. By Sarah Lazare – Union General John Logan is often credited with founding Memorial Day. The…
It would be nothing short of racist for Germany to deny the Herero and Nama people financial reparations, writes Shannon Ebrahim. Any time now we can expect Chancellor Angela Merkel…
By Kim Scipes Books Reviewed in this Essay: Theodore W. Allen, The Invention of the White Race. London and New York: Verso, 2012. Edward E. Baptist, The Half Has Never…
The OAS intervention is difficult to see as anything other than a partisan, Washington-driven initiative. Venezuela’s announcement that it would withdraw from the Organization of American States (OAS) has been greeted with the usual derision in the U.S. media, most of which long ago abandoned any pretense of journalistic neutrality on that country.