Since neither drug users nor dealers consider themselves crime victims, deepening the drug war must rely on coercive tactics that erode public trust. By Dean A. Dabney, The Conversation The…
By Sean Douglas Anthony Carmona, President of Trinidad & Tobago, yesterday publicly supported a call to have European governments, whose countries benefited from slavery in the West Indies, to pay…
Land passed down from a freed slave should not be seized to further enrich a giant corporation. By RJ Eskow, AlterNet This is a story about property: real and imagined,…
Earlier this year, activists launched a campaign called Freedom Cities to protect and uplift all people of color. (And, no, it doesn’t include more police.) By Zenobia Jeffries, Yes! Magazine…
Watch This Video: Black Teacher Crisis A new study published by the Institute of Labor Economics finds that black children assigned a black teacher during elementary school performed better on…
Monday, July 31st, 2017 Special Pledge Drive Edition of Vantage Point. Premium: Africa’s Great Civilizations. Dedicated to the Memory of the Honorable Marcus Mosiah Garvey. Special Guests: Dr. Julius Garvey,…
News Release For further information, please contact The University Marketing and Communications Office via telephone at 868-663-9392 or email Rhonda.Jaipaul@sta.uwi.edu or Shyvonne.Williams@sta.uwi.edu For Immediate Release Regional Headquarters, Jamaica. Monday, July…
July 31st is Black Women’s Equal Pay Day By Valerie Wilson, Janelle Jones, Kayla Blado and Elise Gould / Economic Policy Institute July 31st is Black Women’s Equal Pay Day,…
As debate raged around health care and Russia-gate last month, Attorney General Jeff Sessions quietly held a “national summit” of law enforcement representatives to discuss the future of policing. Vice…
By Stephen A. Crockett Jr. – In her first major piece of legislation since taking office, Sen. Kamala Harris (D-Calif.), along with everyone’s favorite Republican, Sen. Rand Paul (R-Ky.), has…
By Greg Palast Why would somebody say a crazy statement like that?” Bernie had his arms spread like gull wings, fingers scribbling facts in the air. “Why” was not really…
By Tess Raser, Truthout As a young Black teacher, I feel empathy for every person I hear is taken from us by state-sanctioned violence — whether through the carceral state or…