Issue: 482

Usually, stories about land grabs are about transnational corporations and powerful and rich governments going into developing countries and buying up land or leasing it for 99 years and using the land to benefit their own people, while excluding the local populace. Fracking is not a benign form of energy extraction. For a half-dozen years,…

[Below is an excerpt from Tolu Olorunda’s book, The Substance of Truth (Sense Publishers, 2011)] A citizen is by definition a citizen among citizens of a country among countries. His rights and duties must be defined and limited, not only by those of his fellow citizens, but also by the boundaries of a territory. -Hannah…

Below is a statement by fifty-five black activists and scholars insisting that the time has arrived for an African American voice on US policy towards the regions of North Africa and the Middle East. For far too long African Americans have been compelled, by mainstream USA, to remain either silent on international affairs or only…

One of the biggest challenges African people face in America is to rejuvenate Black Nationalist thinking as struggle to determine for ourselves, as a people, what is in our best collective interests. Garvey used his varied skills to become one of our true twentieth century freedom fighters. There are far too many African people in…