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…
By Mike King shutterstock_321867671 As the media and state response to the recent attacks in San Bernardino have illustrated, premeditated political violence in the U.S. today only gets labelled…
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…
Vantage Point Radio Show hosted by Dr. Ron Daniels with guests Rev Dennis Dillon, Kamm Howard, Nataki Kambon
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…