Slavery is a horrific, irremovable stain on US history. But Americans disagree on how to handle its legacy. While nearly 75% of black respondents in an AP-NORC Center for Public Affairs Research poll said they believe the US government should pay reparations to the...
If you feel like you’re hearing more about slavery reparations these days, it’s not your imagination. Compensating the descendants of American slaves is suddenly a hot topic on the campaign trail, with presidential candidates voicing support for slavery...
In December 2017, 50 years after Martin Luther King Jr. called for a multiracial, nonviolent army of the poor, a new generation of activists resurrected the civil rights leader’s boldest crusade: the Poor People’s Campaign. … Read the full article at...
In 1968, more than 1,000 garbage collectors walked off the job in Memphis, Tennessee, to protest poverty wages, unpaid overtime, and poor — sometimes lethal — working conditions. Last month, West Virginia public school teachers in all 55 counties did the...
Last week, Donald Trump, running as Savior-in-Chief, tried to appeal to the African-American electorate by attending his first black church, Detroit’s Great Faith Ministries. Though it took him long enough, at least Trump finally spoke to black folks rather than...
“The Institute for Policy Studies, a longtime critic of CEO pay and economic inequality, has since put out two publications impugning the motives of those on the council. ‘These CEOs paint a stark picture of hypocrisy,’ said Scott Klinger, a...
