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When the Pew Center recently polled African Americans it found that a solid majority of us now believe that historic gaps between black and white incomes, wages, along with disparites in health, wealth, morbidity, mortality and more are closing. Both the Pew Center and Ford agree this is good news, except for one thing. It's not true. Black unemployment is the highest it's been in 70 years and rising, and all the gaps between blacks and whites are further widening, not the other way around. The only thing that's changed is we now have a black face in the White House...
Cory Booker rose to prominence as a fanatical backer of school privatization, yet poses as a friend of public education and teachers.
This week the reader discussion was on the limits of electoral democracy in the United States and the accommodation of diversity in American imperialism.
The author employs Frantz Fanon’s discussion of protest culture as a lens of analysis of hip-hop in Africa.
The Catholic Church was deeply involved in legitimizing and regulating slavery – a very unsaintly legacy.
Venezuela’s US-appointed coup leader Juan Guaidó plans to privatize state assets and give foreign corporations access to oil, the Wall Street Journal admitted.
