African Americans

Time to unite against racist terror

June 19, 2015 By Tim Wheeler

"In the spring of '69, Daily World editors asked me to travel down to Charleston, S.C. to cover a strike by Hospital workers, Local 1199."

To Mother Emanuel’s Denmark Vesey: your fight goes on!

June 19, 2015 By John Wojcik

Fighting off racist attacks is nothing new for the Emanuel African Methodist Episcopal Church in Charleston, S.C.

Today in history: 150th anniversary of Juneteenth

June 19, 2015 By Special to People’s World

It honors the day when slaves in Texas heard they had been freed by Abraham Lincoln's Emancipation Proclamation.

Nine dead after hate crime in historic S.C. black church

June 18, 2015 By Associated Press

The gunman stayed for nearly an hour at the prayer meeting Wednesday night before shooting the victims - six females and three males.

Michelle Obama’s deeply moving words

June 17, 2015 By Jesse Jackson

At the graduation ceremony of Tuskegee University, Michelle Obama spoke of the racial barriers facing African Americans and encouraged them to overcome discrimination.