Black History
Famed Black journalist Joe Walker’s fateful meeting with Malcolm X
February 18, 2021Joe Walker was already a widely admired African-American journalist when he got a surprising invitation to become the editor of Muhammad Speaks, the Nation of Islam’s newspaper.
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‘Georgia On My Mind: The Third Reconstruction’: Connecticut Black history event planned
February 17, 2021The event is a fundraiser for People's World, which has suffered a severe income loss due to the pandemic. Throughout the decades of struggle for civil rights, peace, and economic justice, People's World has reported and...
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REVIEW: ‘Ballad of an American’—Civil rights giant Paul Robeson’s illustrated bio
December 4, 2020Actor, athlete, singer, anti-fascist fighter, and defender of democracy—Paul Robeson did it all.
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Philadelphia’s MOVE and Black political culture on film at TIFF
October 26, 2020It wouldn’t be incorrect to compare much of what we learn about the history of MOVE to current struggles for social justice.
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‘We Charge Genocide’ petition’s call for justice still echoes seven decades later
August 26, 2020The We Charge Genocide petition indicted the anti-Black crimes and violence of U.S. capitalism. The Claudia Jones School for Political Education and the Paul Robeson House are keeping its memory alive.
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