NOVANEWS By Amy Goodman Protests are continuing in Milwaukee two days after police shot dead a 23-year-old African-American man named Sylville Smith. On Sunday, Wisconsin Governor Scott Walker activated the National Guard after local residents […]
NOVANEWS By Claudia Garcia-Rojas Barbed wire surrounds a tower in Maitland Jail, a former Australian prison, in a photo taken on July 17, 2006. (Photo: Weapons of Mass Distortion) While issues of mass incarceration have […]
NOVANEWS By Cedric Lawson In July 2010, Marissa Alexander, a young Black woman from Florida, faced the fight of her life only nine days after giving birth to her youngest daughter. Her estranged husband, Rico […]
NOVANEWS By Marjorie Cohn A protester holds a sign in front of the Smithsonian Air and Space Museum in Washington, DC, on October 4, 2014, to oppose an exhibition glorifying the use of unmanned military […]
NOVANEWS By Mattathias Schwartz The Intercept In January 2013, during the military trial of five men accused of plotting the 9/11 attacks, a defense lawyer was discussing a motion relating to the CIA’s black-site program, […]
NOVANEWS By Jean Saint-Vil Jafrikayiti At the Black Summit “Hoodstock 2016”, last night, in Montreal, a sister stood up during one of the panel discussions to place due emphasis on the pioneering role played by […]
NOVANEWS By Nicolas J S Davies Sociologist Diane Vaughan coined the term “normalization of deviance” as she was investigating the explosion of the Challenger space shuttle in 1986. She used it to describe how the social culture at NASA fostered […]
NOVANEWS By Mark Karlin People look into the compound where Osama bin Laden was killed in Abbottabad, Pakistan, May 4, 2011. (Warrick Page / The New York Times) What really happened on the night of […]
NOVANEWS By Bill Scher Donald Trump speaks during a rally at the BB&T Center in Sunrise, Florida, August 10, 2016. With Trump increasingly isolated and hobbled by controversies of his own making, the National Rifle […]
NOVANEWS By Lynn Parramore (Photo: 401(k) 2012; Edited: LW / TO) Outrage over how big money influences American politics has been boiling over this political season, energizing the campaigns of GOP nominee Donald Trump and […]