African-American history
Civil Rights Movement memories: Marching from Selma to Montgomery in 1965
February 7, 2020The experiences of witnessing Jim Crow in Houston in the mid-fifties, soon after migrating with my parents and sister from Buenos Aires, were forever implanted in my conscience. Doing whatever necessary to help eradicate the U.S....
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Former Detroit Daily World reporter on the legacy of Rep. John Conyers
October 28, 2019There seemed to be no such thing as a progressive cause that didn't have his name on it: from Medicare for All to the Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr., holiday.
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Capitalism breeds and feeds Black oppression
February 9, 2018"The struggle of the Negro people for integration in the economic, political, and social affairs of the nation on the basis of full equality with all other Americans is a struggle to enlarge democracy in the...
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New book illuminates history and contradictions of the early Black press
September 13, 2017Claude Barnett and the ANP welcomed left and communist support when expedient, but jettisoned it as the political winds shifted.
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Angela Davis: collective leadership and unity will defeat Trump
March 14, 2017Davis stressed that the struggles for gender and racial equality are “at the center of the struggle for democracy. If anyone knows the way we should be heading, it’s today’s youth.”
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