Article Listing
-
War on two fronts: racism at home, Nazis overseas
February 8, 2008PITTSBURGH — In 1940, Mitchell Higginbotham heard that President Franklin Roosevelt had ordered the Army Air Corps to create a unit of all African American pilots and support personnel. Defying made-in-the-USA Jim Crow segregation, where not...
Read more -
Robeson exhibit spotlights links to Motor City
February 8, 2008DETROIT — An exhibition celebrating the life of Paul Robeson opened here Jan. 19, at Swords into Plowshares Peace Center and Gallery. You can catch it there until April 12. The exhibit, titled “Celebrating Paul Robeson:...
Read more -
Remembering Eslanda Goode Robeson
February 8, 2008Much has been written about the great actor, scholar, artist and activist Paul Robeson. Yet his partner and wife, Eslanda Goode Robeson, is not as widely known today although she was a well-known fighter for civil...
Read more -
Seeking justice after Suharto
February 8, 2008Indonesia’s former dictator General Suharto died in bed last month and not in jail, escaping justice for his numerous crimes in Indonesia and East Timor, the East Timor and Indonesia Action Network (ETAN) charged. One of...
Read more -
In sanctuary, Mexican mother fights for dignity
February 8, 2008CHICAGO — Josué, 14, Juan, 11 and Paloma, 9, live with their grandmother in a small rural town in the state of Guerrero, Mexico. They have not seen their mother, Flor Crisostomo, 28, since she crossed...
Read more