Why Puerto Rico’s Struggle for Liberation is also Africa’s
Pedro Albizu Campos statue. Photo-Flickr. You know yourself through history. One may ask why is a Senegalese like myself concerned with the welfare of Puerto Rico. The first…
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How States Like California Want to Ease Burden on Poor of Trump’s Horrific Budget Cuts
Marian Wright Edelman. Photo--Flickr. Elizabethtown. Moving Forward for Children in California and Nationally Alameda County in California straddles the San Francisco Bay area and stretches from Silicon Valley…
For Trump, It’s Not About Changing Climate; It’s Bannon’s Rapacious Capitalism and Deconstructing Government
Bannon; Trump's climate expert. Photo Gage Skidmore-Flickr President Donald Trump said that in order "to fulfill my solemn duty to protect America and its citizens, the United States…
US: Governors, Top Prosecutors and Business Leaders Defy Trump On Climate Stance
President Trump. Gage Skidmore photo. Flickr Elected officials and private sector leaders across the U.S. plan to defy President Donald Trump's position on climate change. Following Trump’s announcement…
Bill Maher has been a public racist for a long time. Here are the receipts
Bill Maher. HBO screenshot Bill Maher, host of HBO Real Time and purported comedian, gleefully used the n-word on his show this week. His guest for the segment,…
Tamir Rice’s Family Must Sue Cleveland Police –For Truth and Justice
Loehmann. Facebook sourced photo This week Cleveland Police finally fired Officer Timothy Loehmann who killed 12-year-old Tamir Rice, in 2014, not for this child killing, they claim—but because…
Obama to Trump — Paris Agreement was the Right Course
Obama. Photo: Intel. Flickr A year and a half ago, the world came together in Paris around the first-ever global agreement to set the world on a low-carbon…
SCOTUS: Doctoral Candidate Seeks “Protected” Status for Descendants of Enslaved Africans
Challenges the 11th Amendment in a Supreme Court brief. Black doctoral candidate Fenyan Ajamau Stewart is making history by being a pro se litigant who is requesting that…
Trump and Sessions Abandon Smart-on-Crime For Mass Incarceration
Jeff Sessions. Photo: Gage Skidmore--Wikimedia. This was the pointed message from Senator Cory A. Booker (D-NJ) to U.S. attorney general Jeff Sessions: “At a time when people across…
What happenned to the Left in the US in this messy world?
Trump. Photo: Gage Skidmore. Flickr The Left used to be a strong force in the politics of the US, right up to the end of the Vietnam War…