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…
May 11, 2015 by Debora Guidetti & Anna Defour Could you share a few words about the UN International Decade for People of African Descent 2015–2024 and its relevance to Europe? Across Europe,…
By SYLVIE CORBET PARIS (AP) — French President Francois Hollande is to honor the memory of millions of slaves in an inaugural visit Sunday to a memorial in the French…
by Robert C. Koehler Activist DeRay Mckesson smacks down Wolf Blitzer: “You are suggesting this idea that broken windows are worse than broken spines, right?” The 21st century has skewed…
By Mark Weisbrot The recent Summit of the Americas has come and gone but the next few months and year will show whether it was a turning point in hemispheric…
By Keeanga-Yamahtta Taylor This year marks the fiftieth anniversary of many of the most significant events of the Black Freedom Struggle of the 1960s. Two years ago, we celebrated the…

by Carimah Townes Prosecutor Marilyn Mosby. The death of Freddie Gray was ruled a homicide and all six officers involved in his arrest and transport face criminal charges, including second-degree murder…