By Henry (Chip) Carey Haitians rioted violently in the capital Port-au-Prince and across the country on Monday to protest fraud in this past autumn’s elections and in this Sunday’s presidential vote. While the opposition…
By: Danielle C. Belton Demonstrators protest in front of the police station in Ferguson, Mo., March 12, 2015, in the aftermath of the fatal police shooting of Michael Brown. No one…
By Cherri Senders / AlterNet Last speech of MLK By the time of his death at the hands of an assassin’s bullet in 1968, Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr., had shifted much…
By: Todd Steven Burroughs Tuesday night looked so good, I almost didn’t pay attention to what President Barack Obama was saying. I did notice that he morphed back into his 2004…
By: Charles D. Ellison President Barack Obama waves before giving last year’s State of the Union in the House chamber of the U.S. Capitol Jan. 20, 2015, in Washington, D.C. …
In response, the NAACP said they are planning to file a motion with the judge. An Ohio prosecutor has rebuffed a request by the Cleveland branch of the NAACP…
The African Sun Times, Africa’s number one and largest newspaper in America, has announced its Persons-of-the-Year, as well as the Corporate Social Responsibility Company of the Year. The…
By: Kirsten West Savali Tamir Rice Today, a grand jury in Cleveland, Ohio does what this system does. They put an exclamation point on the statement that black lives don’t matter….
By Matt Pearce Above photo: Demonstrators hold a “die-in” on North Michigan Avenue in Chicago. The “Black Christmas” demonstration on Thursday, organizers said, was held to protest the killing of…
Decriminalization of marijuana is a racial justice issue. According to statistics from the Office of Juvenile Justice and Delinquency Prevention in 2003, Black youth were 3.7 times more likely to…
By Justin Gardner In 1991, a neo-Nazi white supremacist gang was terrorizing the streets of Lynwood in Los Angeles County. The reason these violent thugs could run amok was because they…