King’s message of unconditional love and nonviolent redemptive good and his steadfast attack on the evils of racism, poverty and militarism just cannot be ignored.read more

Blacks still seem to have Obama’s back, but does he have theirs?read more

With his latest budget, President Obama reveals that he cares little about the poor and working class in the United States.read more

Obama should consider his own legacy and let the American people know whose side he’s on: the dictator’s, or those who clamor courageously for democracy.read more

“People come here to have babies,” said Graham. “They come here to drop a child. It’s called, ‘Drop and leave.’”

“Drop a child.” It’s as if he were talking about animals.read more

This week marks John Brown’s 210th birthday. After enduring a month of Southern states celebrating the Confederacy, let’s hear it for abolitionist John Brown.read more

We need a new progressive movement, and a new young people’s arm of it, just like SNCC, to oppose the wars in Iraq and Afghanistan and to focus on “the least of these,” whether in Haiti or the ghettos of America, where poverty continues to lead young people to crime, violence, political disenfranchisement and death.read more