The Supreme Court has always been a political institution. Racism, political expediency, and outright corruption have always dictated its decisions.

 A poem from the late Amiri Baraka questions the myths of U.S. exceptionalism that engulfed the nation after 9/11 attacks, contextualizing them with a history of the West’s centuries-long…

A UN "peacekeeping" mission continues operations in Somalia.

                                                     

This week’s featured author is Psyche A. Williams-Forson. Williams-Forson is Professor and Chair of American Studies at the University of Maryland, College Park. Her book is Eating While Black: Food…