By Leah Fried, Joe Brusky (CC BY-NC 2.0,) Extracting wins from the boss has never been easy—and union membership hovering at a low 11 percent isn’t making it any…
By: Corey Richardson President Barack Obama SAUL There’s a huge difference between having a president who’s black and having a Black President. With Barack Obama, we thought we hit the jackpot…
By Chauncey DeVega On Friday, the Federal Bureau of Investigation announced that it had arrested three white men, Curtis Allen, Gavin Wright and Patrick Stein, who as part of a…
Dr. Ron Daniels, National Coordinator for the Institute of the Black World 21st Century’s Drug Policy Reform Initiative (IBWDPI) announced today that world renowned Actor, Humanitarian and Human Rights Activist Danny…
By Renee Feltz The report from the Black Alliance for Just Immigration calls on lawmakers to address the disparate rates of detention and deportation for black immigrants., Jim Watson/AFP/Getty Images , It…
By Earl Ofari Hutchinson — GOP presidential candidate Donald Trump turns Will Rogers famed maxim that he never met a man he didn’t like on its head every time when…
Whatever else, the continued and recent rash of police killings of our people tell us about the police and the society that shelters and supports them and refuses to restrain…
From the Desk of Joe Beasley A Global Human Rights & Civil Rights Activist An Open Letter to Pope Francis His Holiness Pope Francis Apostolic Palace Vatican City 00120 September…
By Amy Goodman, Denis Moynihan The national scope of the prisoner strike, with actions in 40 to 50 prisons around the U.S., is truly historic. (Photo: Alex Milan Tracy/Sipa USA…
Above Photo: Edmon de Haro The colonial history, the legacy of enslavement, racial subordination and segregation, racial terrorism, and racial inequality in the US remains a serious challenge as there has…
By William J. Barber, II Above Photo: CHARLOTTE, NC – SEPTEMBER 21: Protestors march down W.T. Harris Blvd. September 21, 2016 in Charlotte, NC. The protests began the previous night following…
By Julius W. Garvey, M.D. (Board-certified surgeon, leading the effort to secure a posthumous Presidential pardon for his father and civil rights leader, Marcus Garvey). PA/PA Archive Marcus Garvey was…