The real reason Trump won: White fright
BY CHRISTOPHER SEBASTIAN PARKER Many presidents have assumed the reins of a divided nation, but we’ve never seen anything like the reaction to Donald J. Trump’s 2016 presidential election. It …
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Why the surge of anti-black racism during Obama’s presidency?
BY SOUMANOU SALIFOU The second trending item on Yahoo! for a good part of the day on October 24th, 2012—that is 12 days before the November 6th, 2012 U.S. presidential …
Why Martin Luther King’s anti-racism crusade needs to be renewed
BY JULIUS A. AMIN Reverend Martin Luther King Jr. was 39 years old when he was assassinated. Schools, streets and children are named in his honour in Africa. In America, he … Read More
Race and racism after Obama: where do we go from here?
BY CHRISTOPHER SEBASTIAN PARKER Last night marked the final time President Obama will address the nation as its commander-in-chief, an event signaling the beginning of the end of the “Obama …
Kenyan Muslims tell Donald Trump and Ben Carson: religious bigotry is wrong
BY JULIE WHITE A CNN report out of Kenya on Tuesday described how a group of Kenyan Muslims shielded their Christian compatriots from being killed on a bus by Al-Shabaab … Read More
Black Panthers and Black Lives Matter – parallels and progress
BY COLETTE GAITER Comparing the 1960s and 1970s Black Panther Party and today’s Black Lives Matter movement reveals parallels and progress. Stanley Nelson’s recently released film The Black Panthers: Vanguard of … Read More
Ben Carson: token candidate
BY CHRISTOPHER PARKER Ben Carson has now overtaken Donald Trump in the national polls as the GOP front-runner. As a black man, I’m not at all sure how I should feel about … Read More
Why the American democracy is the greatest despite the disturbing things some of our leaders say
BY LOU SIFA When announcing his candidacy for the 2016 Republican presidential nomination in New York on June 16, real estate mogul Donald Trump said with a straight face: “When … Read More
Quebec to rename sites with names containing the “N” word
BY LISA FRENCH In a news release on Friday, a provincial commission in Quebec, Canada, announced that it had “de-officialized” the names of eleven Quebec sites that contain the word … Read More
Why historically black colleges and universities matter in today’s America
BY MELISSA E. WOOTEN Trayvon Martin. Michael Brown. Eric Garner. Sandra Bland. Renisha McBride. Martese Johnson. And now Tyrone Harris. All these names remind us how precarious black lives can be. Martin, Brown and Garner were …