Ethnicities

by Henry Navarro Delgado | (The Conversation) | – – One knows that something is touching a nerve in North American culture when a foreign luxury car company wants a piece of the pie. The movie Black Panther is that type of archetypical popular culture milestone. The release of Black Panther provides the opportunity to […]

The hidden superpower of ‘Black Panther’: Scientist role models

At a time of a war on science, scientific role models are more important than ever #blackpanther #marvel

With Marijuana Legal, L.A. Makes Amends for damage of the War on Drugs

By Kevon Paynter | ( Yes! Magazine ) | – – The city creates a “social equity” tier of applications who will receive priority for marijuana business permits. Decades of marijuana prohibition in California are coming to an end thanks to ballot initiative Proposition 64, or the Adult Use of Marijuana Act. Approved by a […]

Africa

What Africa taught the Rev. Martin Luther King, Jr.

By Juan Cole | (Informed Comment) | – – In 1957 Martin Luther King and his wife Coretta went to Ghana in connection with its independence from Britain. The British had grabbed the fabled West African Gold Coast in the nineteenth century in order to profit from its gold and other resources (after having profited […]

Donald Trump

The US Role in Turning Countries into Shitholes and provoking Immigration

By Juan Cole | (Informed Comment) | – – Trump just can’t help letting the cat out of the bag. And boy does his administration have a lot of cats in bags. The line of the Republican Party right wing has been that voter suppression laws are necessary for the integrity of elections. In fact, […]

After Golden Globes Speech (Video), Oprah said open to Presidential Run

Golden Globes/ Oprah Winfrey | (Video Clip) | – – Amy Kaufman of the LA Times wrote that she asked Stedman if Oprah would be open to a presidential bid and he said, “absolutely she would.” I asked Stedman if @oprah would run for President. "It's up to the people. She would absolutely do it." […]

African-American areas have “Worst Poverty” in Industrialized World: UN Official

TeleSur | – – Environmental racism, extreme poverty, and disease thrive on a breathtaking scale in U.S. Black communities in the South, shocking a UN investigator. Extreme poverty, environmental degradation and toxic hazards in poor communities in the United States are facing increased international scrutiny following an inspection of rural Alabama communities by a United […]

Upshot of Mueller Probe: Putin did to US what we did to Iran and Iraq