Tech’s History Includes Unheralded Black Pioneers
Margot Lee Shetterly covered one of the many stories waiting to be told. Photo: Wikimedia Commons It is critical to recognize the scores of women and men of…
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New York Joins 15 Attorneys General in Backing Transgender Lawsuit
Schneiderman New York Attorney General Eric T. Schneiderman has joined a coalition of 15 attorneys general backing a law suit opposing the Trump Administration’s plans to ban open…
Uganda’s Military Dictator Museveni Seeks Early Purge With Rush to Scrap Age-Ceiling
Museveni--no ballots? Then bullets Yoweri Museveni, Uganda’s military dictator of 31 years last month deployed security forces who laid siege to Parliament as it was scheduled to handle…
The African American Student Debt Crisis
Photo: Center for American Progress Two weeks ago, the U.S. Department of Education provided the first-ever look at long-term outcomes for student loan borrowers, including results by race…
A Birthday Tribute: The Imcomparable Courage and Humanity Of Dick Gregory
Dick Gregory. Elvert Barnes Protest Photography|Flickr The celebration of the life of Dick Gregory at the City of Praise church in Landover, Md. was over seven hours of…
World Bank, U.N., and I.M.F are Tools of U.S. Foreign Policy
With respect to the commentary "World Bank's and other International Donors' Roles in Museveni's Destruction of Uganda's Economy," the major international financial institutions such as the international Monetary…
Kenya’s Electoral Commission Failed to conduct Court-ordered Reforms — Raila Odinga
Raila Odinga delivers speech at U.K.-based policy institute Chatham House on October 13. It is a pleasure to be here once again. There are few institutions in the…
Not Yet Uhuru: Thirty Years After the Assassination of Thomas Sankara
Which way forward for Africa and the Caribbean?Thomas Sankara, Pan-African revolutionary and former President of Burkina Faso from 1983 to 1987 had a vision for the sustained and…
Black Music Honors on Bounce TV Sunday, October 15th
Left to Right: Don Jackson, Quiana Taylor (NCVC employee), Marie Sueing, Tammy Gilbert Cardona (NCVC employee, Proscovia Mattas (NCVC employee), and H. Beecher Hicks, III. The night consisted…
The Myth of White Supremacy from Columbus to Charlottesville
James Baldwin in The Fire Next Time summed it best: “Time catches up with kingdoms and crushes them, gets it teeth into doctrines and rends them; time reveals…