A U.S. Census report [6] on voter turnout shows Blacks voted at higher rates than whites in the 2012 election – the first time that’s happened since records have been kept, according to Census Bureau officials. Another study indicates African Americans also turned out in proportionately greater numbers than whites in 2008, to …
More Whites Swept Into U.S. Gulag The racial incarceration gap has narrowed, slightly, with more whites and going to prison in recent years. “It’s almost like law enforcement is looking for more feeders for their beds,” said Soffiyah Elijah, executive director of The Correctional Association of New York. “As the …
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Chokwe Lumumba Makes Bid for Mayor of Jackson Human rights lawyer and former Republic of New Afrika official Chokwe Lumumba has his sights set on the top job in Mississippi’s biggest city. “It give us an opportunity to demonstrate that we are great in terms of administration of human rights – something …
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It’s hard to tell, given the lackluster response from both the elected leadership and the electorate in Black and Latino communities across the country, but there’s a war going on against their children and it is having genocidal effect. The failing educational policies of the Obama administration, mere recasts of …
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Black Michigan Under Emergency Financial Boot “About 54 percent of the Black population in our state will not have the right to vote in local elections” because of Michigan’s imposition of emergency financial managers over cities and school districts, said John Philo, director of Sugar Law Center. “It’s an economic model …
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Millions of Americans seem to have disappeared. Gone without a trace, without notice. Surely such a thing would merit media coverage. Surely our commander in chief would make an effort to find them. Well, no. And no. Leid Stories explains why the legacy-building, second-term president maintains his political distance with …
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On June 12, 1963, the very day that civil-rights leader Medgar Evers was assassinated in Jackson, Miss., four New York-based activists, all of them prominent in the struggle for equality, were asked in a wide-ranging discussion with Richard Heffner, host of “The Open Mind” (PBS), to assess the politics of …
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Watching the congressional hearing on gun control yesterday, one would come to a logical conclusion: This is white America taking care of its business; the rest of us will just have to look on. Truth be told, the racial dynamic was a repeat of Vice President Joe Biden’s gun-control advisory …
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Housing is for People – Not Banks “Housing policy at its core should have as its primary end providing housing” for people, rather than as a national wealth-building mechanism, said Tim Sullivan, of Boston-based United for a Fair Economy. Sullivan is author of the group’ annual report, State of the Dream 2013: …
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What Would Dr. King Do? Were he alive today, Dr. Martin Luther King Jr. would “highlight Wall Street criminality,” “war crimes coming out of the White House, the Pentagon, and the State Department” and “the social crimes of the New Jim Crow, the criminal justice system, which is itself criminal,” …
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Anti-Lynching March Set for January 15 “The time has come to pass anti-lynching laws in this country,” said former Delaware State University professor Jahi Issa, who was fired following a student protest against a spate of suspicious hangings of young Blacks. “If these are suicides, then we want the federal …
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Bill to Head Off U.S. War Against Syria “It has actually reached the point that presidents don’t give a darn about the Congress,” said Harlem Democrat Charles Rangel, one of six congressional signatories to a letter urging President Obama to ask Congress’s authorization before waging war on Syria. Rangel appeared at …
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Not long ago, Harlem was a model of black urban achievement and the epicenter of black political power in the United States. Today, Harlem is but a shadow of its former self in almost every way; Harlemites openly concede it. How did this come to be? Kermit Eady, founder of …
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“The serial imperial aggressions launched and menaced by the neoconservative Republican Bush Junior administration and the neoliberal Democratic Obama administration are now threatening to set off World War III.” Historically this latest eruption of American militarism at the start of the 21st Century is akin to that of America opening …
America’s obsession about race has a fairly simple premise: Who and what you think you are aren’t nearly as important as understanding who and what you are not. Not white. While there is intense interest in whether and to what degree the “Nots” have internalized this premise, scant attention is …
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