For over one hundred years, the African-American middle class has
largely supported what I call "liberal integrationism," the organized attempt
to assimilate into the U.S. mainstream to achieve a "color blind"
society.
The contemporary black reparations movement, the demand for compensation to African Americans due to centuries of unpaid labor exploitation under slavery, segregation, and ghettoization, has grown remarkably in recent years. On November 7...
When did the great executive stock option hog wallow
really
start? You can go back to the deregulatory push under Carter in
the late
Seventies, then move into the Reagan Eighties, when corporate
purchases of
shares really took...
Even while the U.S. Congress votes to
give its power over to the President
to regulate international trade and commerce (via the "Fast Track" vote), citizens across the nation and the world are building the broad-based agenda by which...
Animosity between India and
Pakistan is spread over the past half
a century, more or less equal to the total life of both South Asian nuclear neighbors. During this time, both the countries fought two full-scale wars (1965 and 1971)...
When Gary Webb was coming up,
news reporting was a noble
virtue.
There was a lot to get excited about-black power, queer and women's rights, state marijuana decriminalization measures, and most importantly, a war that nobody...