By Christian Parenti July 28, 2015 “Information Clearing House” – “Jacobin” – How did we get here? The numbers are chilling: 2.2 million people behind bars, another 4.7 million on…
July 25, 2015 BernieSanders.com Thank you for inviting me to be with you tonight. Thank you for the work you continue to do as leaders in civil rights. You…
By Deirdre Fulton Documents released to The Intercept by the Department of Homeland Security show that the federal agency monitored National Moment of Silence protests like the one pictured above, in…
By Sonali Kolhatkar Activist Jasmine Richards talks about Black Lives Matter with Sonali Kolhatkar in Pasadena. (Photo: ‘Uprising’ Radio via YouTube) On July 24, The Movement for Black Lives National…
By Brit Bennett Coates’s “Between the World and Me” is written as an open letter to his teen-age son. Credit PHOTOGRAPH BY STEPHEN VOSS/REDUX The night Trayvon Martin’s killer walked…
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 Bijan Stephen If you were to map the black bodies destroyed by American police this year, you would have what looks like the shadow of a cancer creeping steadily…
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By Ta-Nehisi Coates Darhil Crooks / The Atlantic And have brought humanity to the edge of oblivion: because they think they are white. —James Baldwin…
By Jose Adan Silva The June 26 opening of the first Summit of Women Leaders of African Descent of the Americas Américas, when ended two days later in Managua with…
Kearston Farr comforts her daughter, Taliyah Farr, 5, as they stand in front of the Emanuel African Methodist Episcopal Church in Charleston on June 19, 2015. (photo: Joe Raedle/Getty Images)…
By Rebecca Traister When, on Wednesday night, a 21-year-old white man named Dylann Roof entered the Charleston church founded by former slave Denmark Vesey on the anniversary of Vesey’s planned 1822 slave…