Category: Politics
New study suggests online mortgage lenders reduce discrimination against Black homebuyers
The housing market is red hot. The Federal Housing Finance Agency house-price index rose 12% last year due to low inventories and high demand. Redfin, the popular real...
Do African Americans Have the Right to Bear Arms?
Anti-Blackness determined the inclusion of the Second Amendment in the Bill of Rights, and has informed the unequal and racist application of gun laws. With 233 mass...
Forgotten History of The U.S. First Black Lieutenant Governor Oscar J. Dunn
Oscar James Dunn was Louisiana’s first black lieutenant governor, serving from 1868 to 1871, and one of three who held that post in the state during the Reconstruction...
Democrat Senators Push the Legalization of Marijuana
U.S. Senate’s top Democrat is backing a bill that would strike down a longstanding federal prohibition on marijuana, embracing a proposal that has slim chance of...
France’s Non Acknowledgement With Its Colonial Past
I first met Salim, a 35-year-old French citizen of Algerian origin, about 10 years ago at a cafe near Levallois, the Parisian banlieue—or peri-urban ghetto—where he...
U.S. Congressional Black Caucus Members Ask The Biden Administration To Reverse Marijuana Deportation Cases
A coalition of congressional lawmakers sent a letter to President Joe Biden on Wednesday, urging him to reopen certain deportation cases, including those involving...
The Assassination of President Jovenel Moïse Threatens Haiti’s Stability
The assassination of President Jovenel Moïse seemed to have thrown an already turbulent nation into chaos on Wednesday, with a muddled line of succession. Here is a...
Israel continues to carry out a wave of Arrests of Palestinians
In May 2021, at least 3,100 Palestinians in the West Bank, Jerusalem, and 1948 occupied territories were arrested during random and organised Israeli arrest campaigns,...
Juneteenth, the new federal holiday
The U.S. government is catching up with Black people who have been commemorating the end of slavery in the United States for generations with a day called...
Whitehouse to Sign a Bill declaring Juneteenth a Federal Holiday
The United States will soon have a new federal holiday commemorating the end of slavery. Juneteenth is the oldest nationally celebrated commemoration of the ending of...
