By Terrell Jermaine StarrCLEVELAND—Thousands of activists will be in downtown Cleveland protesting the Republican National Convention this week, but one group you won’t see is Black Lives Matter Cleveland. The…
By Senator Hank Sanders Selma, AL – Every time I am stopped by law enforcement, I’m afraid. I recently shared this fear with a friend who is White. He said…
By: David Malebranche President Barack Obama Uriel Sinai/Getty Images Dear President Obama: As a black man, I have cried more times than I care to admit in the past week, particularly after…
Professor Cornel West. (photo: VICE) By Cornel West, Guardian UK Along and deep legacy of white supremacy has always arrested the development of US democracy. We either hit it head…
By Kali Holloway / AlterNet Almost 160,000 prisoners are currently serving life sentences in the United States; nearly 50,000 incarcerated people serving terms of life without parole. While mass incarceration has become a…
By: Jeanne Theoharis Martin Luther King Jr. (second from left) and his wife, Coretta Scott King, lead a civil rights march from Selma, Ala., to the state capital in Montgomery in…
By Jelani Cobb The least disputable measure of a bad week is any seven-day period that requires a body count at the end of it. Seven Americans in three different cities…
By: Charles D. Ellison Mourners sing and clap their hands at the Police Headquarters memorial for officers killed in the recent sniper attack in Dallas, Texas on July 10, 2016. The…
By Christopher Mathias National Reporter, The Huffington Post Carlo Allegri / Reuters Preston Gilstrap, 64, was a Dallas police officer for over 41 years before he retired in 2013….
By Adam Sanchez Above Photo: Stokely Carmichael delivers his “Black Power” speech at a rally in Broad Street Park in Greenwood, Mississippi. From zinnedproject.org Note: This article points out that people are…
By Shady Srour Americans today grow up in a system of white supremacy. This white supremacy is so ingrained, so deep and so penetrating that it becomes almost part of…
By David Remnick Muhammad Ali in Chicago, in 1966. CreditPHOTOGRAPH BY THOMAS HOEPKER / MAGNUM What a loss to suffer, even if for years you knew it was coming. Muhammad Ali,…