By Janell Ross President Obama said the nation can no longer “close their eyes” to racial inequality in the criminal justice system as he called for reform during a speech…
By Nadia Prupis President Barack Obama spoke to the NAACP in Philadelphia on Tuesday, July 14, 2015. (Screenshot/YouTube) In a speech to the annual convention of the NAACP in Philadelphia…
By Nkechi Taifa — President Obama changed 46 lives on Monday, commuting the prison terms of individuals who had been locked away serving long sentences for low-level, nonviolent offenses. “These…
By Dave ZirinTwitter Serena Williams wins the women’s singles final at the All England Lawn Tennis Championships in Wimbledon, London, Saturday July 11, 2015. (AP Photo/Kirsty Wigglesworth) There are numerous…
By: Hope Wabuke Ta-Nehisi Coates “I write you in your fifteenth year. I am writing you because this was the year you saw Eric Garner choked to death for selling…
By David Swanson – Yes, I also want to say Free Mumia. In fact, I want to say Free all the prisoners. Turn the prison holding Mumia Abu-Jamal into a…
By Rev. Edward Pinkney. My name is Reverend Edward Pinkney. I am at Lakeland Correctional Facility, otherwise known as a prison, in Coldwater, Michigan. I am a victim of racial…
By Tomas Rios Serena Williams is shattering every record in tennis this year. Why isn’t she being paid like the women she is dominating in the process? Serena Williams is…
By Sarah Lazare A large crowd cheered as the Confederate flag was removed from the South Carolina statehouse on Friday. (Photo: Travis Dove/The New York Times ) Thousands flocked to…
By Jill Lepore Bernie Sanders walks into the Senate Chamber to vote against President Obama’s budget deal, two days after delivering an eight-and-a-half-hour speech in protest of the bill. Credit…
By John Vibes Former Federal Judge Nancy Gertner recently spoke at the Aspen Ideas Festival about the damage that she saw the drug war inflict on people during her…
By Terrell Jermaine Starr / AlterNet If you thought slavery was outlawed in America, you would be wrong. The 13th amendment to the Constitution states that “neither slavery nor involuntary servitude,…