By Julia Craven The Washington Post via Getty Images BALTIMORE — “Stunning” was the only word Sen. Bernie Sanders (I-Vt.) could find to describe one of Charm City’s most poverty-stricken…
Even in the midst of the rising tide of struggle in which we are now engaged against racism in its openly violent and hide- ous forms, as well as its…
By Phillip Smith / Alternet blacklivesmatter_0.png The Black Lives Matter movement sprung out of the unjust killings of young black men (Trayvon Martin, Eric Garner, Michael Brown), either at…
Winnie Hong sorting packages before Christmas last year in San Francisco. (photo: Justin Sullivan/Getty Images) By John Kiriakou The U.S. Postal Service is spying on us. And they’re not doing…
The histories and holidays of the oppressed, colonized and enslaved are, of necessity, different from the history and holidays of the oppressor, the colonizer and the enslaver. Likewise, their…
By Mama Marimba Ani A group of European scavengers, many of whom had been imprisoned or homeless in England, arrived in New England in 1620. They first lived on Turtle…
By Drew Gilpin Faust faust_1-121715.jpg Peter Foley/epa/CorbisBill Clinton and John Hope Franklin discussing race relations in America at the New York Public Library, October 2005 The historian John Hope…
By Steven Rosenfeld / AlterNet In a highly anticipated speech, Sen. Bernie Sanders passionately detailed what being a democratic socialist means to him and would mean for Americans if elected…
The history of Black people in this country is a complex, engaging and thought-compelling history, a history of Holocaust and enduring hope; of savage enslavement and yet an unsupressable desire…
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…