history
Why commemorate the Chicano Moratorium in February?
February 25, 2010People familiar with the term "Chicano Moratorium," identify it with the date of August 29, 1970, when some 30,000 Chicanos and progressives marched through East Los Angeles against the Vietnam War.
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Communist Party and African American equality – a focus unequaled in U.S. history
February 3, 2010A look at writings of leading African American members of the Communist Party USA on the struggle against racism over four decades.
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Dallas re-lives its Black history
February 3, 2010The Dallas Peace Center jump-started Black History Month by inviting the Rev. James Lawson, one of the most famous of Dr. Martin Luther King Jr.'s contemporaries in the civil rights movement, for a three-day tour.
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Howard Zinn: people’s historian
January 28, 2010Howard Zinn died yesterday but he will live on, as future generations read his A Peoples History of the United States and say "Wow!"
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James and Esther Jackson and the long civil rights revolution
January 28, 2010A celebration this week recognized the contribution of the Jacksons and the Communist Party in the struggle for African American freedom, and welcomed the new book "Red Activists and Black Freedom."
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