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Lies and white supremacy fuel Republican voter suppression campaign

February 25, 2021 By John Wojcik

Republicans whine about “cancel culture,” but it’s they who are scheming to cancel the right to vote for millions—especially people of color.

William Z. Foster—Pioneer fighter for Black equality in organized labor

February 25, 2021 By Arthur Zipser

At a time when trade unions ignored the issues of Black workers and kept them out of organized labor, William Z. Foster fought to change the whole movement.

Labor and allies pressure Congress to pass American Rescue Plan

February 24, 2021 By Rosalío Muñoz And Janice Rothstein

The Biden package is designed to give a “knockout blow” to the pandemic and its gruesome health, economic, and social impacts.

In plain sight, GOP senators show sabotage is their game

February 24, 2021 By John Wojcik

At one hearing, Republican perpetrators of Jan. 6 attack try to hide their responsibility for it, and at another GOP tries to sink the national rescue plan.

Harlem’s 1946 fight against South African starvation foreshadowed anti-apartheid struggle

February 24, 2021 By W. Alphaeus Hunton

The fight to save Black South Africans from starvation in 1946 foreshadowed the major struggles against apartheid that would define the decades to come.