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This week we depart from Haiti to visit the native son of another country with a deep history of oppression and resistance: South Africa. The luminary Dennis Brutus - …

History, it seems, will remember 2010 in the United States as the year of health-care reform, the Gulf oil spill, and the tea party movement. But the most widely …

The United Nation Human Rights Council, under the Universal Periodic Review, started in Geneva on November 5, 2010 to review the human rights record of the United States. The …

It's snowing in Boston, finally. Yes, you heard me: finally. The rest of the country has been getting creamed lately - the Metrodome roof caved in, and Syracuse is …

Bethlehem, West Bank — For the first time in years, the people of Bethlehem have something more to celebrate at Christmas than the recollection of an important birth in …

The prospect of broadcast agitator Glenn Beck recommending that his audience read a book with ‘Black Power’ in the title might seem less likely than President Obama standing up …

It's been a difficult year for progressives, and most other Americans as well. While I feel discouraged about many things happening in our country and around the world, and …

Abidjan - For three days, 25-year-old Ousmane Traoré attended the private clinic in the populous district of Abobo, north of Abidjan. Suffering from gunshot wounds to the head and …

I still recall the shock of reading the philosopher Krishnamurti's bald assertion, in his little book “Freedom from the Known,” that I was personally responsible for everything. The book …

In his press conference today President Obama said the economic focus is no longer saving the economy from crisis, but “jumpstarting” it to make a dent in unemployment. He …