U.S. Needs to Keep Past in Mind With Cuba
by Louis A. Perez Jr. To better assess the recent change in U.S.-Cuba relations, we need a fuller historical understanding. Much of the discussion in the United States during the last some weeks has...
View ArticleCelebrating the Day Mandela Walked Free
by Clarence Lusane Few events bring together the entire world in collective celebration. Feb. 11, 1990, was such a day, when Nelson Mandela walked out of prison after 27 years of incarceration.read more
View ArticleFew Black People in Hollywood Suites
by Emily Bernard An impending departure of a top Hollywood executive reveals a lot about the industry’s blind spot on race. Sony Pictures Co-Chair Amy Pascal and producer Scott Rudin traded obnoxious...
View ArticleMalcolm X, the Civil Rights Leader America Would Rather Forget
by Orson Aguilar Martin Luther King and Malcolm X were the two defining civil rights leaders of the 1960s, but only one of them got a holiday. The other has been largely ignored by white America...
View ArticleBlack Girls Matter, Too
by Elizabeth Ann Thompson A recent report focuses on an overlooked segment of the population: black girls.“Black Girls Matter: Pushed Out, Overpoliced and Underprotected” was released in early...
View Article50 Years After Selma, America Retreats on Civil Rights
By David A. Love Half a century after the Selma march, the United States is turning its back on civil rights. March 7 marks the 50th anniversary of Bloody Sunday, the historic march from Selma to...
View ArticleU.S. Response to Venezuela Is Biased
The U.S. reaction to events in Venezuela has been highly partisan. The government of President Nicolas Maduro is depicted as losing popular support and purportedly relying on repression to stay in...
View ArticleDriving While Black Should Not Be An Offense
by Fred McKissack Jr. The Justice Department’s report on Ferguson, Mo., reveals a major problem. It describes how a predominately white police department waved off offenses by friends and family, all...
View ArticleRacist Fraternity Video Deserves Punishment
By Starita Smith The official response to the racist fraternity video is commendable. University of Oklahoma President David Boren took swift action, banning Sigma Alpha Epsilon from his campus and...
View ArticleObamacare's Secret: It's Working
by Orson Aguilar On its fifth anniversary, the secret of Obamacare is that it’s working. The Affordable Care Act, signed into law on March 23, 2010, is doing precisely what it was supposed to do:...
View ArticleLoretta Lynch Should be Nation's Attorney General
by Brian Gilmore Loretta Lynch deserves to be confirmed as the nation’s attorney general. Yet, nearly five months after President Obama nominated her for the position, there hasn’t even been a Senate...
View ArticleTed Cruz Has Nothing to Offer the Country
by Jose Miguel Leyva Imagine a politician so desperate to stay relevant that he runs out and takes the most contrary position possible to any rational argument. We don’t have to imagine, though, since...
View ArticleCongressional Black Caucus Should Back U.S.-Iran Deal
by Clarence Lusane The Congressional Black Caucus should enthusiastically back the U.S.-Iran nuclear agreement. There’s been lots of excitement about the deal — a global effort that has involved not...
View ArticleU.S. Again Isolated at Americas Summit
by Miguel Tinker Salas The Obama administration wants to make Venezuela the new Cuba. In December, shortly after President Obama announced that he wanted to re-establish diplomatic relations with...
View ArticleHillary Clinton needs to champion public schools
By Ruth Conniff In the video announcing her run for president, Hillary Clinton declares, “Everyday Americans need a champion, and I want to be that champion.” To make that campaign slogan credible,...
View ArticleWe need to initiate comprehensive police reform
By Darryl Lorenzo Wellington The unjustified shooting in South Carolina yet again demonstrates the necessity of police reform. We only know the truth about the encounter between Officer Michael Slager...
View ArticleDuring Fair Housing Month, let's celebrate inclusiveness
by Mike Ervin April is Fair Housing Month, a good opportunity to highlight how the Fair Housing Amendments Act has improved housing opportunities for people with disabilities. The Civil Rights Act of...
View ArticleWhat to do about missing black men
By Raina J. Johnson Black men are missing from daily life. We ought to treat this problem as a public health crisis. Because it is, truly, an epidemic. As a single black woman living in Milwaukee, I...
View ArticleWhy the Baltimore uprising happened
by Eddie Conway and Dominque Demetrea Stevenson The Baltimore uprising was a long time in the making. For years, the African-American community has been subjected to constant abuse at the hands of the...
View ArticleWithout hope, inner-city residents will take to the streets
by Alvaro Huerta Those of us who grew up in ghettoes and barrios are all too familiar with police misconduct and government negligence. The response from inner-city Baltimore residents comes as no...
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