FBI’s Most Wanted Assata Shakur’s Open Letter to the Pope
You might know that activist Assata Shakur was recently added to the FBI’s most-wanted terrorist list. The agency is offering a $1 million dollar reward for her capture, and the state of New Jersey has added another $1 million. Shakur is the first woman to ever make this list and the second domestic “terrorist” to [...]
Did You know that Bush Can’t Travel to Switzerland Without Facing Charges? Will Obama Have Same Fate?
You may or may not know this, but former president George W. Bush can’t go to Switzerland without worrying about being prosecuted as a war criminal. The president was scheduled to appear in the country to address a Jewish charity, but had to cancel the 2011 trip because of the fear of being arrested. [...]
America’s ‘Melting Pot’ Is Boiling Over
America has changed. As Congress debates revisions to our nation’s immigration laws, it does not take a political scientist or sociologist to recognize this. Readers of The Huffington Post just need to look around: The cashier at mini-market where you buy gas was born in India. The cab driver you hailed emigrated from [...]
Hugo Chavez Tells Black Journalist He is Proud of His African Features
Hugo Chavez, the recently departed leader of Venezuela, left a legacy that is both mixed and powerful. He seemed deeply committed to fighting for the poor and soon became an enemy of capitalist countries such as the United States. He recently lost his battle with cancer, leaving his home country bitterly divided over who [...]
African Moms, Be Patient With US Single Daughters
On CNN, China Okasi writes that it’s not just black American women whose mothers worry that they’ll die alone; African mothers in the U.S. have their own set of expectations. Being an unmarried African woman in her childbearing years is like being a manicurist with a hand tremor: very odd and rather tricky. [...]
When African Women Suffer ‘Singleism’ Like US Girls
On CNN, China Okasi writes that it’s not just American black women whose mothers worry that they’ll die alone; African mothers in the U.S. have their own set of expectations. Being an unmarried African woman in her childbearing years is like being a manicurist with a hand tremor: very odd and rather tricky. She [...]
The U.S. Government Stopped a Minimum Wage Increase in Haiti
In 2011, Wikileaks published bombshell reports showing that the U.S. began to use all channels, diplomatic and otherwise, to stop a minimum wage increase in Haiti. At that time, Think Progress reported on how U.S. operatives went into overdrive to prevent a movement to increase wages for people living in one of the poorest countries on the [...]
Dr. Julianne Malveaux Discusses Civil Rights and How Much We’ve Forgotten
by Dr. Julianne Malveaux One hundred and fifty years ago, President Abraham Lincoln signed the Emancipation Proclamation. It was a flawed document that freed enslaved people in Confederate areas that he did not control. At the same time, it was a progressive document because it initiated discussion about the “freedom” Thirteenth, Fourteenth and Fifteen [...]
How the Government Poisoned Liquor During Prohibition, Killing Thousands
It was Christmas Eve 1926, the streets aglitter with snow and lights, when the man afraid of Santa Claus stumbled into the emergency room at New York City’s Bellevue Hospital. He was flushed, gasping with fear: Santa Claus, he kept telling the nurses, was just behind him, wielding a baseball bat. Before hospital staff realized [...]
I Have a Watermelon Birthmark, but I Hate the Fruit
Man’s mother eats lots of watermelon while pregnant, man is born with watermelon-shaped birthmark, man grows up to hate the fruit. This is Theodore Johnson’s story, and although he’s aware of the historical significance of the red and green fruit, he writes on the Huffington Post that he’s tired of the weight blacks allow the [...]
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