By Rebekah Kebede Andrew Holness (R), leader of the opposition Jamaican Labour Party, speaks to supporters at the party headquarters after they won the general election in Kingston, Jamaica February…
Above Photo: Flickr/ Jamelle Bouie Illustration by Kendrick Daye ..At its best the river of our struggle has moved consistently toward the ocean of humankind’s most courageous hopes for freedom and…
By Maya Rhodan For over an hour on Thursday, 31-year-old activist and educator Brittany Packnett sat beside President Obama at a table in the Roosevelt Room of the White House for…
All roads in the Pan African world lead to Newark November 16-20 for what has the potential to be one of the most historic great gatherings of people of African…
From The Baltimore Sun, Huffington Post, The Hill , , Former NAACP President Ben Jealous Backs Bernie Sanders By John Fritze The Baltimore Sun February 5, 2016…
Deray McKesson has been one of the most vocal activists since the Ferguson shooting of 18-year-old Michael Brown in August 2014. Photograph: Michael B Thomas/AFP/Getty Images Prominent Black Lives Matter…
By: Khyla D. Craine Supporters of Republican presidential candidate Donald Trump wait for him to sign items after a town hall Jan. 29, 2016, in Nashua, N.H. Monday is the day….
It’s Nation Time… Again In 2012 the Institute of the Black World 21st Century (IBW) convened State of the Black World Conference III (SOBWC III) at Howard University in Washington,…
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…