By Robert Stitt The Huffington Post recently published a response to the New York times article “In Heroin Crisis, White Families Seek Gentler War on Drugs.” The articles point out…
By Oliver Laughland and Lauren Gambino Hillary Clinton met with prominent leaders of the new civil rights movement on Friday, including founders of the influential Campaign Zero, telling them she…
By: Fredrick C. Harris There are deep structural issues that continue to plague poor and working-class minority youth in America, writes Fredrick C. Harris in a new paper. This demographic…
By Suzy Khimm If you had to explain in 60 seconds why Bernie Sanders remains a long shot to win the Democratic nomination, you could do worse than point to…
With the new Investigate platform, people will be able to automatically scan their investment portfolios and find out if companies are invested in the prison industry. This free investment screening…
By Michelle Chen Formerly incarcerated New Yorkers rally with VOCAL to ban the box outside City Hall. (VOCAL) Each year, hundreds of thousands of people who have spent time behind…
By Basil Wilson For Carib News 11/4/15 In his remaining tenure as President of the United States, President Obama has indicated his willingness to make changes in the United…
The education system resembles the justice system: arrest minorities at the first sign of trouble, use force, and don’t punish bad cops. As the video of a South Carolina sheriff’s…
By Hazel Trice Edney In this screenshot of one of the videos, Officer Ben Fields wrestles 16-year-old to the floor before dragging and tossing her across the classroom. (TriceEdneyWire.com)…
By: Steven J. Niven Mahommah Gardo Baquaqua, Utica, N.Y., 1850 There are relatively few detailed, firsthand accounts of the 12 million Africans captured and forcibly transported to the Americas in…
By Felice León ‘The history is what the history is. And it is disrespectful, to white people, to soften the history.’ “Why do you think that so many white people…
By Mark Weisbrot Cuban President Raúl Castro reminded Washington that the Guantánamo Bay prison and military base must be closed and the land returned to Cuba. (Photo: The Visual Explorer…