Black liberation

New book gives civil rights leader Alphaeus Hunton long overdue recognition

November 9, 2021 By C.J. Atkins

People's World interviews Tony Pecinovsky, author and editor of a new book on the largely unknown civil rights leader.

Prosecutors targeted Black Lives Matter protesters in hopes of disrupting the movement

August 19, 2021 By Kat Stafford

The push to use federal charges against protesters came from top-down directives from former President Donald Trump and former Attorney General William Barr.

‘America on Fire’: A timely look at police violence and Black rebellion

July 8, 2021 By Patrick Chura

Violence will not end, the author asserts, until the nation stops expecting police to manage conditions that are beyond their control.

Book highlights how early civil rights movement wedded Black liberation and anti-colonialism

May 27, 2021 By Tony Pecinovsky

Few books capture the dynamism and energy of what is now called the long civil rights movement better than Lindsey R. Swindall’s 'The Path to the Greater, Freer, Truer World.'

Historian says right-wing attacks on Critical Race Theory prove its value

May 26, 2021 By Berry Craig

Murray State University historian Brian Clardy says the right-wing wig-out over Critical Race Theory reminds him of the castor oil he took as a kid. “It tasted awful but you knew it was good for you.”