By Shawn Fremstad In 1963, the poverty line for a family of four was 50% below median family income—or one-half of the income of the typical four-person family in America….
By Emma Niles Above Photo: A banner over a Denver freeway supports the prison strike. (It’s Going Down / Twitter)On Sept. 9, 1971, prisoners staged a takeover of Attica State Penitentiary, New York state’s…
By Jesse Hagopian, Truthout Tonya Ray, center, a math teacher at the Academy of Public Leadership, talking with students in Detroit, May 11, 2016. (Joshua Lott / The New York Times) The…
The last time I saw James Baldwin was at a memorial colloquium on Hoyt Fuller at Cornell University in 1984 at which we were both presenting. He was talking, as…
by Robert J. Barsocchini As Colin Kaepernick’s choice to remain seated for the US national anthem continues to highlight and provoke conversation about racism and oppression in the country,…
By Dave Zirin San Francisco 49ers quarterback Colin Kaepernick answers questions at a news conference on Friday, August 26, 2016. (AP Photo / Ben Margot) There has been a lot of…
By Jared Keller, www.psmag.com At this very moment, nearly 450,000 Americans are sitting in county jails not because they’ve been charged with a crime, but because they simply don’t have enough…
By: Peniel E. Joseph A man talks to police in riot gear as they wait in an alley after a second night of clashes between protesters and police Aug. 15, 2016,…
By Hazel Trice Edney (TriceEdneyWire) – Renowned civil rights and Black political journalist George E. Curry, the dean of Black press columnists because of his riveting weekly commentary…
By Manisha Sinha Universal Images Group / Getty Images Pierre Dominique Toussaint l’Ouverture (1746-1803) Haitian revolutionary leader. Etching by John Kay, 1802. The nation was a beacon for the anti-slavery cause…
For Carib New 8/24/16 Donald Trump is like a raging bull hell-bent on conducting a presidential campaign that was doomed to failure. The polls clearly demonstrate that he is losing ground and…
By Katherine Beckett / The American Prospect Portrait of a young man in jail Arthur Longworth is currently serving life without the possibility of parole in Washington State. Art committed murder at…