
By Lynn Stuart Parramore Imagine a black child from a family of modest resources gets the opportunity to attend an elite college preparatory school. Motivated by a love of learning…
By Lynn Stuart Parramore Imagine a black child from a family of modest resources gets the opportunity to attend an elite college preparatory school. Motivated by a love of learning…
By Isaiah J. Poole Young technician checking solar panels on factory roof Photo Credit: zstock/Shutterstock Since 2011, Maine’s bombastic Republican governor Paul LePage has given America a taste of what…
By: Corey Richardson President Barack Obama SAUL There’s a huge difference between having a president who’s black and having a Black President. With Barack Obama, we thought we hit the jackpot…
By: Tarana Burke #BlackLivesMatter co-founders Opal Tometi, Alicia Garza and Patrisse Cullors appear onstage during a breakfast honoring them by the New York Women’s Foundation on May 14, 2015, in New…
By Chauncey DeVega On Friday, the Federal Bureau of Investigation announced that it had arrested three white men, Curtis Allen, Gavin Wright and Patrick Stein, who as part of a…
By: Nsenga K. Burton Ph.D Scene from The Birth of a Nation Scene from The Birth of a Nation Elliot Davis When Nate Parker’s The Birth of a Nation won…
By Jeff Guo The Martin Luther King Jr. Memorial in the District. The civil rights leader also had a dream that one day there would be economic opportunity and economic justice…
By Nick Turse FROM HIGH ABOVE, Agadez almost blends into the cocoa-colored wasteland that surrounds it. Only when you descend farther can you make out a city that curves around…
By Amy Goodman, Denis Moynihan The national scope of the prisoner strike, with actions in 40 to 50 prisons around the U.S., is truly historic. (Photo: Alex Milan Tracy/Sipa USA…
Above Photo: Edmon de Haro The colonial history, the legacy of enslavement, racial subordination and segregation, racial terrorism, and racial inequality in the US remains a serious challenge as there has…
See the signatories below 26 September 2016 In the face of rising racism, scholars, activists and civil society organisations express their support for the UN Working Group on People of…
By Elizabeth Preza / AlterNet A new report from the Economic Policy Institute reveals a stark disparity between the hourly pay of blacks and whites; on average, whites make 26.7 percent more…