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In the last two days, at least 10 fatal casualties have occurred in the protests against Sudan’s government over rising food prices and economic demands.

Vermont senator Bernie Sanders continued his feud with Amazon CEO Jeff Bezos by taking aim at the company’s business practices this week. Sanders introduced a bill called Stop Bad Employers by Zeroing Out Subsidies (Stop BEZOS) Act, a reference to Amazon’s CEO. The bill is intended to force companies with 500 or more workers to pay […]

As reported by the BBC, the new Socialist government of Spain will welcome migrants from three ships that rescued 630 people hailing from around 26 different countries, including Eritrea, South Sudan, Algeria, Afghanistan, Pakistan and Bangladesh. According to officials, the migrants have among them some 123 unaccompanied minors, 11 children under the age of 13 […]

Corey Booker, speaking as a panelist on the National Action Network Convention organized by Rev. Al Sharpton last weekend, pointed the finger at low Black voter turnout to explain why Republicans won victories across the nation during the 2016 election cycle. Booker compared his observations during the 2008 cycle to what he saw in the […]

How nations treat their most vulnerable, often children and the elderly, reflects their values. So while Congress battled over whether to revive American government—and did so after a brief shutdown—millions of Americans wondered whether their children’s health would be compromised in the shuffle. People of various backgrounds hoped that the bi-partisan support that kept the […]

The House and Senate voted on Monday to temporarily resume normal government operation, effectively ending the shutdown that had been in effect since Saturday. Democrats and Republicans decided had been at a standstill over immigration policy. The legislation being advanced by the Senate’s 81-18 vote allows government funding for at least the next three weeks, […]

“I’m getting tired of your shit. You don’t never buy me nothing,” Erykah Badu free-styled on her prophetic track “Tyrone” in 1997. The song captures a protagonist whose unbalanced emotional, financial and romantic labor led her to rhythmically collect her dude, a dude who could have also been collected by the homeboys he was so […]

As a child, my grandfather took my brother and me to a park in a Jacksonville, Florida African-American suburb. The park included standard kid-approved characteristics: The swings, grass, seesaws, sunshine and instantaneous friendships formed during play. Then, my grandpa learned that the park was constructed on a toxic site. He never took us back. I […]

In the aftermath of Hurricane Maria’s devastation of Puerto Rico, San Juan’s mayor Carmen Yulin Cruz called a contract alarming in an interview with Yahoo News. The contract is with a small Montana firm based in the hometown of Interior Secretary Ryan Zinke. Whitefish Energy signed the 300 million dollar contract despite only being a […]

The latest showdown between President Donald Trump and Congress could very well result in a shutdown of the government if Congress does not give Trump the wall that he has been aggressively pushing since his campaign. In order for Trump to get his wish, and the wall, some very complicated political dominoes will have to […]

Many of the Trump administration’s values directly contradict those of the country’s largest cities. While Trump is strongly against the immigration of undocumented citizens, cities such as Chicago, Los Angeles and even Atlanta have taken on the approach of being “welcoming” to them. This separation has now led to legal action. Chicago has become the […]

On Thursday, President Donald Trump authorized the United States’ first attack on Bashar al-Assad’s regime in Syria following a tragic chemical attack. The missiles were launched from two Navy destroyers and targeted multiple airbases.