By: Breanna Edwards Protesters blocking the Atlanta Downtown Connector Protesters obstructed traffic along Atlanta’s Downtown Connector—a section of Interstate Highways 75 and 85—Wednesday evening in support for Michael Brown as the…
By Braden Goyette Edward Baptist’s new book, “The Half Has Never Been Told: Slavery And The Making Of American Capitalism”, drew a lot of attention last month after the Economist said it was…
Boxes of aid for Ebola patients donated by Ghana’s president and chairman of the Economic Community of West African States at the airport in Conakry, Guinea, Sept. 15, 2014.
Many whites believe discrimination against whites is more prevalent than discrimination against blacks. Above, commuters in Lower Manhattan in 2012.
The Caribbean Islands received an estimated 25 million visitors and tourists last year who spent over $27 billion but despite the influx of money…
The following is a press statement by Fred Mitchell, Bahamas Minister of Foreign Affairs and Immigration made on March 24th, 2014
Ferguson protests swarm the city at Police Headquarters, City Hall, colleges, shopping malls and political fundraisers.
By Evan Walker-Wells Plans are underway for a “Weekend of Resistance” that organizers are calling Ferguson October to protest the police killing of teenager Michael Brown, police violence, and other forms of injustice — and it will…
NEW YORK — Six years after America sank into the deepest economic downturn since the 1930s, the jobless rate has fallen to 5.9 percent, the lowest since July 2008. But one demographic group — African-American men — seems to be stuck in a permanent recession.
Faya Ora Rose Touré Interview (Part 1) Faya Ora Rose Touré Interview (Part 2) Faya Ora Rose Touré Interview (Part 3) About Faya Ora Rose Touré Attorney, civil rights and education activist, songwriter, playwright Faya Ora Rose Touré is a Harvard-educated Civil Rights activist and litigation attorney who has worked on some of the highest-profile civil rights cases to come before the courts. Touré—who spent most of her career…
New tensions erupted in St. Louis on Wednesday evening after an off-duty police officer shot and killed Vonderrit Myers Jr, an 18-year-old African American man. The officer, who has not been named, was working at his second job as a security guard but was still wearing his police uniform when the incident occurred.
FERGUSON MISSOURI – Missouri authorities are drawing up contingency plans and seeking intelligence from U.S. police departments on out-of-state agitators, fearing that fresh riots could erupt if a grand jury does not indict a white officer for killing a black teen.