It's not news that the United States is the incarceration capital of the world: The 2.4 million people behind bars in the U.S. today is,…

For the month of April, I decided to visit the Haw River, which flows near where I live, every day. I wouldn’t hold myself strictly…

There is a reason why black people hate the media: they hyper-criminalize us. According to a new study [3] by Media Matters for America, four New York City…

Neoconservative pundit Robert Kagan and his wife, Assistant Secretary of State Victoria Nuland, run a remarkable family business: she has sparked a hot war in Ukraine…

"The state of Black America is in crisis—and we see justice challenged at every turn." Its findings, said Marc Morial, president and CEO of the…

See, I keep telling you that old-fashioned racism is alive and well in this country. After the fraternity bus sing-along at the University of Oklahoma,…

What's happened to the Republican Party? Back on March 20, 1854, a group of abolitionists met in a small schoolhouse in Ripon, Wisconsin, to fight back against…

It is necessary to call things by their right names. The obscene regularity of police murders in the United States has reached the point where…

The yawning racial wealth gap in the United States is no accident, but rather, driven by unjust public policy decisions—from the re-segregation of education to…

Russians view the United States much more unfavorably today than they did during the end of the Cold War era.  As you will read about…

The description of the death of Robert-Francois Damiens, the man who attempted to kill Louis XV, is not for the faint-hearted. On March 2, 1757,…

I hate to spoil a happy ending. The movie “Selma,”like this week’s commemorations of Martin Luther King Jr.’s march from Selma, Ala., 50 years ago, celebrates…