June 22, 2017
Color of Law
Executive Editor
The only thing of concern to white supremacy is the criminalization of all black people, and the stacking up of black bodies. Because All Lives Matter.
The police dashcam execution of Philando Castile in St. Paul, Minnesota, was released to the public Tuesday. And if you’re like me, you just don’t have…
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Commentary
Editorial Board
It is in the public interest that those incarcerated maintain and nourish family contacts, but too many prison administrators have another idea. They want to make money from the desperate situation of the incarcerated.
There is the adage that Nero fiddled while Rome burned, and I fear it is the adage that may define the ways too many observers have…
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Commentary
Columnist
Democrats, unions, and teachers need to develop a message that resonates with its core electorate and the broader public that is consistent with its mission and agenda.
Having lost the 2016 presidential contest, Democrats are out of power in all three elected branches of the federal government. The hotly contested 2017 special elections…
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Commentary
Columnist
They call the shortened time between the filing for a union election and the election itself “ambush elections,” as if there were no tradition of U.S. workers joining unions and that federal law since President Franklin D. Roosevelt has encouraged workers to exercise their franchise and vote in union elections.
Just as corporate and billionaires’ money has perverted democracy in the U.S., so has it perverted the freedom of workers to form unions to protect themselves…
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Commentary
Columnist
In the spring of 1998, at the African Group meeting during the Commission on Human Rights in Geneva, a Resolution was drafted identifying the Trans Atlantic Slave Trade as a Crime Against Humanity.
We must regain the momentum which the Reparations Movement had in the first few years of this century. The United Nations World Conference Against Racism in…
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