Category : News Talk

What Happened in Tennessee Proves That We Need a Third Reconstruction

thenation.com - The ousting of two Black Democrats from the Tennessee House of Representatives makes clear that the US urgently needs to salvage and rebuild a true multiracial democracy.

10 years later, Boston owns the finish line

politico.com - Runners approach the finish line of the Boston Marathon on April 18, 2022. | Charles Krupa/AP Photo BOYLSTON-BOUND — Happy Marathon Day. Kids are out of school, government offices are closed, you may…

Trump Announces Plan to Target 'Marxist Local District Attorneys' If Elected

theepochtimes.com - If elected to a second presidential term in 2024, former President Donald Trump would investigate "Marxist local district ...

New report, Women’s Mass Incarceration: The Whole Pie 2023, reveals how many women are locked up in the U.S., where, and why

prisonpolicy.org - The report examines the unique challenges women in the criminal legal system face and provides the clearest look at how the pandemic impacted women's incarceration ...

How Prison Has Effected My Family & Community - United Black Family Scholarship Foundation

ubfsf.org - By Ivan Kilgore —May 2019 (The following is an excerpt from my latest book Domestic Genocide: The Institutionalization of Society.) I begin by informing you that institutions affect people in both po…

Unpacking Two Core Shortcomings of the ATA

groundviews.org - Photo courtesy of The Toronto Star For forty years, human rights activists have demanded repeal of the Prevention of Terrorism Act (PTA) of 1979, which the state has used to terrorize minorities wi…

NOT ENOUGH

jamaica-gleaner.com - The Rastafari Coral Gardens Benevolent Society (RCGBS) is unhappy with how the Government has handled reparation for the community as a whole, 60 years after the atrocities meted out during what beca…

Gone with the Wind, slavery and racism

isj.org.uk - A review of The Wrath to Come—Gone with the Wind and the Lies America Tells, Sarah Churchwell (Head of Zeus, 2022), £27.99 Sarah Churchwell’s new book could hardly be timelier. According to a recent …

Opinion | A Man Whom Trump Reviled Is Running for Office in Harlem. ‘Karma,’ He Says. - The New York Times

armwoodlaw.com - Yusef Salaam, one of five Black and Latino teenagers wrongfully convicted of a 1989 rape in Central Park, is finally where he seems to belong: on the campaign trail. In Harlem, where Mr. Salaam is a …

The record 'shrine fortress': Miyagi Records opens in The Washington Park ‘Arts Block’ - The DePaulia

depauliaonline.com - Off the Green Line’s Garfield stop, DJ Nigel Ridgeway organizes records, ranging from Afro Jazz to Chicago house music. Miyagi Records, owned by DJ’s Marco Jacobo and Ridgeway, opened this Friday in …

Who Is Ralph Yarl? Black Teenager Shot in Kansas City, Missouri

newsweek.com - His family described the 16-year-old as an avid scholar with an interest in music.

Buying Off Black America – OpEd

eurasiareview.com - On April 18, Sophia Institute Press will publish my new book, War on Virtue: How the Ruling Class is Killing the American Dream. One of the subtexts to the volume is the way the ruling class t…

Not Banking on Banga

resilience.org - Banga needs to help the World Bank bring an end to the debt crisis and create real pathways for debtor countries to build resilience to climate change and volatility in the global economy.

Families Displaced From California Neighborhood Seek $2B

usnews.com - PALM SPRINGS, Calif. (AP) — As a child, Lawrance W. McFarland lived on a small piece of land on a Native American reservation in Palm Springs he described as a “little world of its own,” surrounded b…

House where Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr. planned Alabama marches moving to Greenfield Village

wxyz.com - Starting this year, the Jackson House will be dismantled piece-by-piece and trucked more than 800 miles north to Dearborn, where it will eventually be open to the public as part of the history museum