Black Rights

The US committed crimes against humanity by creating the conditions that led to sickness and death for vulnerable sectors of the U.S. population By​​​​​​​ Ajamu Baraka Published on BAR, June 24, [...]

In a world of depleting resources and contracting economies, states are preparing for future uprisings by a growing underclass. This article is also available in French on Middle East Eye French [...]

VIDEO Dr. Gerald Horne speaks with Aaron Maté about the George Floyd protests, the black freedom struggle, and Trump’s expansion of the US police state at home and around the world. Pushback with [...]

U.S. President Donald Trump’s tweet demanding lethal violence—“…when the looting starts, the shooting starts…”—requires the United Nations to intervene. Published on Black Alliance [...]

Amid nationwide protests over the police killing of George Floyd in Minneapolis, Harvard professor Dr. Cornell West appeared on CNN Friday night and said, “I thank God people are in the [...]

The FBI’s aggressive efforts against Martin Luther King Jr. remain a huge stain on the Bureau, and exemplary of the dirty work it carried out during the long 1960s. Less known, but of no less [...]

Despite CNN’s claim that Acosta’s punishment – having his WH Press Pass withdrawn – was unprecedented, Glen Ford’s personal observations and experience indicate that racism in [...]

The 14th Amendment of the US Constitution guarantees citizenship to all persons born in the United States but birthright citizenship has been under constant attack by white nationalists and for [...]

This article discusses how republican attempts to exclude African Americans from the polls echoes efforts by Southern whites that enabled the Jim Crow era and provides important background [...]

By Michael Harriot, 4th April 2018. This week, America will commemorate the 50th anniversary of the assassination of the Rev. Martin Luther King Jr., the most famous and beloved civil rights [...]