By Ursula Wolfe-Rocca Some of the groups targeted by the FBI’s COINTELPRO. (Source: Zinn Ed Project) This month marks the 45th anniversary of a dramatic moment in U.S. history. On…
Dr. Maulana Karenga As we mark this year’s Black History Month II: Women Focus, we will again pay rightful homage to Black women, African women everywhere—to the pioneers, heroines,…
By: Kirsten West Savali Democratic presidential candidates Hillary Clinton and Bernie Sanders shake hands at the start of their MSNBC Democratic Candidates Debate Feb. 4, 2016, in Durham, N.H. …
Prisoners inside prison yard. (photo: AP) By John Kiriakou, Reader Supported News The country’s two largest private prison corporations, GEO Group and Corrections Corporation of America (CCA) released their annual financial…
By: Lauren Victoria Burke So which one will it be, folks? If you’re voting on the Democratic side, are you going for Bernie Sanders or Hillary Clinton? Who really has…
Fifty years after the founding of the Black Panther Party for Self Defense, the agenda and style of the legendary Black revolutionary organization remains relevant in today’s public discourse….
By Simon T. Meiners Each February millions of Americans pretend that white supremacy is dead. Black History Month? Reverse racism. Slavery? It’s over. Reparations? Fat chance. But here’s what few seem to understand: History…
Above Photo: Flickr/ Jamelle Bouie Illustration by Kendrick Daye ..At its best the river of our struggle has moved consistently toward the ocean of humankind’s most courageous hopes for freedom and…
February 23, 2016. In the presidential campaign, we’ve seen libels on immigrants, fear mongering about Syrian refugees, arguments over Medicare for All and Obamacare, concerns about big money corrupting…
By Aislinn Pulley, Truthout President Obama in Washington, DC, on September 18, 2014. The Obama administration invited civil rights activists and leaders from around the country to the White House to…
By Mychal Denzel Smith Demonstrators protest the death of Eric Garner on August 23, 2014, in Staten Island. (AP Photo / John Minchillo) Most of the work of movement building takes place…
By Chris Hedges Above Photo: The Flint Water Plant tower in Michigan. (ehrlif / Shutterstock) What is in the mind of someone who knowingly poisons children and impairs their lives? Why did…