By V.P. Franklin The article “John Hope Franklin: Race and the Meaning of America” by Harvard University’s Drew Gilpin Faust in the 17 December 2015 issue of the New York…
By Lauren McCauley Demonstrators protest the shooting of Laquan McDonald along the Magnificent Mile in Chicago on Nov. 27, 2015. (Photo: Joshua Lott/Getty Images) Demonstrators protest the shooting of Laquan…
François Hollande on Tuesday became the first president of France to make a formal state visit to Haiti, where bountiful resources and brutal plantation slavery made it the European nation’s…
By Phillip Smith / Alternet blacklivesmatter_0.png The Black Lives Matter movement sprung out of the unjust killings of young black men (Trayvon Martin, Eric Garner, Michael Brown), either at…
The role of slavery in the formation of some of America’s oldest and most respected universities is receiving increased scrutiny, both nationally and at U.Va. A recent book by historian…
By Tom Phillips For the first time since records began black and mixed race people form the majority of Brazil’s population, the country’s latest census has confirmed. Preliminary results from…
By Steven Rosenfeld / AlterNet In a highly anticipated speech, Sen. Bernie Sanders passionately detailed what being a democratic socialist means to him and would mean for Americans if elected…
By Daniel Robelo / AlterNet This week Hillary Clinton again revealed a blind spot for the drug war and a deafness of tone towards Latino issues. She decided to brag…
By Phillip Smith / AlterNet Beginning in 2012, four states and the District of Columbia have voted to legalize marijuana. By this time next year, that number could well double,…
By: Stephen A. Crockett Jr. On Nov. 16, 2015, protesters in Minneapolis gather on the street where a black man was fatally shot by police. The mayor of Minneapolis has…
NEW YORK, Nov 10 (Reuters) – Students are holding events designed to bring attention to racial issues on a handful of U.S. college campuses this week, spurred on by the…
By George E. Curry George Curry Media Columnist Writing under the headline, “Police lives matter too,” Chicago Tribune Columnist John Kass summed up the sentiment – and mass hysteria –…