By Martha J. Bailey
For many, today’s 50th anniversary of President Lyndon Johnson’s declaration of War on Poverty is little to celebrate.
First contemporary findings on how the risk of arrest varies across race and gender Nearly half of black males and almost 40 percent of white males in the U.S. are…
SOUTH SUDAN, HOME OF THE LOST BOYS, AGAIN IN CHAOS
Jan 7 (GIN) – South Sudan may be barely on the radar screen for most Americans but a bitter split in the ruling coalition threatens to make it one of the worst humanitarian disasters in Africa.
By Nkechi Taifa — Clemency not only provides a measure of justice for people who have been unnecessarily incarcerated, it curbs huge costs to taxpayers. In December, President Obama commuted…
In our last article, “Major Social Transformation Is a Lot Closer than You May Realize [3],” we defined where today’s social-political movement is within the eight stages of successful movements [4].
Incoming New York City Mayor Bill de Blasio does not lack for issues demanding his immediate attention. Among them are the historic levels of income inequality and homelessness, as well as the matter of a militarized police force and its abuse of power, particularly with regard to communities of color.
Soon we’ll all be stuck with the unjust working conditions that immigrants face: contingent jobs, with lousy pay and few or no benefits.
New York’s 109th mayor was sworn in Wednesday promising to enact almost every liberal wish. But the mayor’s political fate truly rests on the NYPD.
By Gary Younge
For a nation in mourning, South Africa was in festive spirits in the week following Nelson Mandela’s death. From the moment that first train left at 5 am for the official memorial service, which was addressed by Barack Obama among others, until the first speech, the chanting never stopped.
By Sharda Sekaran
The drug war is full of racism [3]and hypocrisy. It’s hard to argue against that reality. People intoxicate themselves, both illegally and legally, at much the same rates across racial lines.
by Russell Crandall
In 1993 Colombian cocaine kingpin Pablo Escobar was killed by police while attempting to escape from a house in Medellín.
by Ezili Dantò
Nelson Mandela is dead at 95 years old. The African National Congress liberation movement he led helped make white minority rule and apartheid in Africa a monstrous reality no decent human would wish to be associated with.
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