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State of the Dream 2009: The Silent Depression
The current economic crisis requires more than a color-blind stimulus. It demands a complete economic restructuring that addresses the racial wealth divide.
Willy Pete vs. slingshots
"Israel trapped hundreds of civilians inside a school as if in a box, including many children, and then crushed them with all the might of its bombs. What were the world's reactions? Almost nothing."
Obama camp ‘prepared to talk to Hamas’
The incoming Obama administration is prepared to abandon George Bush's doctrine of isolating Hamas by establishing a channel to the organization, sources close to the transition team say.
The Gaza bloodbath
In a rare moment of honesty, the New York Times divulged the real motive behind the bombardment and invasion of Gaza: "to reach a situation in which we do not allow Hamas to govern."
The great debate: Hamas vs. the U.S. Senate
For 18 months my people in Gaza have been under siege, incarcerated inside the world's biggest prison, sealed off from land, air and sea, caged and starved, denied even medication for our sick.
Israeli gunboats ram boat carrying Cynthia McKinney, the people’s secretary of state
Out of nowhere we were rammed and rammed again and rammed again ... by the Israelis. How did we know? Because they called us on the phone afterwards to tell us that we were engaging in subversive, terroristic activity.
Congo: One hundred years of colonialism, dictatorship and war (1908-2008)
2008 marked the 100-year anniversary of the removal of the Congo from King Leopold II of Belgium as his own personal property. Global outrage at the King's brutal rule resulted in his losing the Congo treasure trove on Nov. 15, 1908.
Black state legislators want economic bailout – ‘in the neighborhood’
Dropout rates, infant mortality rates and incarceration rates - all often associated with economic injustice - are skyrocketing in cities and states across the nation.
Blacks built the White House
When the new First Family takes up residence in the White House in January, Barack and Michelle Obama and their daughters will be living in a historic mansion that was built in large measure with slave labor.
A great opportunity to integrate the construction unions
This is a great time to make a long overdue change. Construction unions are the most racist organizations in the nation. Let's make them integrate.
The rains of death in Gaza
As bombs rain down, Palestinians call on all 'freedom loving people to act immediately in any possible way to put pressure on their governments to end diplomatic ties with Apartheid Israel and institute sanctions against it.'
Politics make strange bedfellows
Conservative Christian leaders and gay activists have become bedfellows in their criticism of the choice of Rev. Rick Warren to deliver the invocation at Obama's inauguration.
From Fanon to Africa, with love
Fanon's work was widely read on three continents and is still worthy of study, not least because the insightful thinker predicted how African rulers would rule if they didn't unite the continent's various peoples and failed to develop truly independent and socialist governing systems.
Christmas under occupation
U.S. hands off the little town of Bethlehem! In this season celebrating the birth of the Prince of Peace, let us all resolve to pray and work for ending the occupation, implementing other internationally recognized Palestinian rights and allowing Palestinians to shed the shackles of U.S. foreign policy.
The rebirth of Konbit in Haiti
Dec. 16, was the 18th anniversary of Haiti's first free and democratic elections that gave rise to the Lavalas movement which catapulted Aristide into the presidency in 1990. Thousands of Haitians took to the streets.
Enduring Dixie: College football today
In 2008 we are faced with a question: What is the easier path for an African-American male, becoming president of the United States or an NCAA Division I football coach?
Somali woes: The perils of intervention
Although Somalis have recently been in the Western press because of piracy, the nation has a long and distinct history, centuries before the era of European colonialism.
Mexico City’s Week of Solidarity with Mumia Abu-Jamal
With drums, songs, rap, performance and a lot of leafleting, the friends of Mumia in Mexico demanded his freedom in the zocalo on Saturday, Dec. 6, in solidarity with the march in Philadelphia.
North American academics call for free and fair elections in El Salvador
The letter asserts, "The United States government must respect the right of the Salvadoran electorate to choose its government free from threats of U.S. hostility or reprisals."
Thrown shoes unite Iraq
Tribal leaders from throughout Iraq, from the North to South and from East to West, have claimed him as their son. Muntather's action has united Sunnis, Shiites and Christians. It's united Iraqis as Iraqis.