“Toni Morrison will always be with us”: Angela Davis, Nikki Giovanni & Sonia Sanchez...
Toni Morrison, one of the nation’s most influential writers, died this week at the age of 88 from complications of pneumonia. In...
Everything about 2018 shows why Americans should remember World War I
The Great War had it all: An administration that hated protesters. A compliant Supreme Court. National anthem panics and literal flag kissing!
Homewreckers and nationwreckers united
In most major cities throughout Amerika, there are more homes as rentals than there are homes owned by individuals who live in them.
P. G. T. Beauregard
A white Confederate general can learn from experience that it does society better to recognize the equality of minority races.
The great Scamazon
Instead of giving your hard-earned dollars to Amazon this holiday season consider staying local.
VIDEO: Fracture: Joy-Ann Reid on Obama, the Clintons and the Racial Divide
In her new book, Joy-Ann Reid looks at the history of race relations in the U.S. She discusses the political shifts in the Democratic Party and the relationship between the Clintons and Obama on Democracy Now.
Why racism is so hard to define and even harder to understand
Race is mobile and ever-changing. But ultimately, it serves to maintain white supremacy, at both a local and global level.
NYT remembers David Koch more as ‘philanthropist’ than polluter
An obituary should memorialize a person, but some people’s legacies are darker than dinosaur exhibits.
Death of the ‘usual’ economic evolution and the emergence of the new
With crisis comes opportunity, the possibility for growth and realignment with purpose; for change to take place—change that inculcates harmony, allowing for that which has hitherto been inhibited to be to be expressed.
No, big corporations shouldn’t get tax breaks to create jobs
The breaks seldom pay for themselves — and put employees of local businesses out of work.