By Alison Fitzgerald Three months ago, then-Attorney General Eric Holder gave his prosecutors 90 days to determine whether they could charge individual Wall Street executives with crimes related to the 2008…
By April V. Taylor Presidential candidate Rand Paul is determined to make criminal justice reform a key issue in the 2016 campaign, and in his most recent move, Paul slammed…
By: Charles D. Ellison Ethiopian Jews demonstrate against police violence and racism in the third of such protests May 4, 2015, in Kiryat Gat, Israel. The previous Sunday, thousands of…
by MARK T. HARRIS The Rev. Martin Luther King, Jr., famously once said that a riot is the language of the unheard. But riot is partly a misnomer to describe…
By: Charles F. Coleman Jr. Law-enforcement officials sit at the scene of a motor cyle gang shootout at the Twin Peaks restaurant in Waco, Texas, May 18, 2015. The shootout…
By: E.R. Shipp A woman faces down a line of Baltimore police officers in riot gear during violent protests following the funeral of Freddie Gray, April 27, 2015, in Baltimore. …
By William Astore US Defense Secretary Chuck Hagel speaks to troops in Afghanistan in 2013. (Reuters/Mark Wilson/Pool) It’s 1990. I’m a young captain in the US Air Force. I’ve just…
By Zoë Carpenter New York City Mayor Bill de Blasio speaks about the “Progressive Agenda” along with a coalition of backers on Capitol Hill in May 2015. (AP Photo/Jacquelyn Martin)…
By Norman Solomon Former CIA officer Jeffrey Sterling with his wife after being convicted of leaking classified details to a New York Times reporter (AP Photo/Kevin Wolf) The sentencing of…
By: Linn Washington Jr. On May 13, 1985, a fire started after Philadelphia police dropped an explosive on a building where members of the MOVE organization where hiding. On May…
by AJAMU BARAKA The Neoliberal assault on U.S. workers continues – this time with a slick move on the part of the 1% to sneak by the people a noxious…
BY: STEPHEN A. CROCKETT JR. If a nonprofit gorup has its way, Harriet Tubman could become the new face of the $20 bill.CBS NEWS SCREENSHOT It’s been a busy few weeks…