Civil Rights movement

Good Trouble: Remembering John Lewis, marchers fight for civil rights

July 18, 2025 By Mark Gruenberg

At 1,600 marches from coast to coast, they call for a national mobilization to protect democracy and fight for economic justice.

Peoria honors civil rights leader Ernestine Jackson in Juneteenth celebrations

June 28, 2024 By Noah Palm

There’s no single title that can cover the breadth of all that Jackson did throughout her life.

Reverend James Lawson Jr. ¡Presente!

June 27, 2024 By Special to People’s World

Civil rights activist hailed by MLK as a leading theorist of nonviolence dies.

Separate is never equal: The Daily Worker’s 1954 Brown v. Board coverage

May 17, 2024 By People’s World

Even on the day of the decision, racist reaction was already rearing its head across the segregated South.

Jobs, justice, preserving democracy key themes of the March on Washington

August 28, 2023 By Mark Gruenberg

Rev. Al Sharpton: “The Dreamers” Dr. King prophesied about in 1963 “are in Washington, D.C. The ‘schemers’ are being booked in Atlanta, in the Fulton County Jail.”