Independence Day

Letter from prison: Communist leader Carl Winter on the 4th of July

July 3, 2019 By Carl Winter

Carl Winter was among the first to be falsely convicted under the anti-communist Smith Act in 1949.

First martyr of the American Revolution: Former slave Crispus Attucks

July 3, 2019 By Chauncey K. Robinson

It would take a “second American revolution”—the Civil War—to break the U.S. slaveholder class.

Langston Hughes: Let America be America again

July 3, 2019 By Langston Hughes

Hughes reminds us of the dream of what America could be, but not yet is.

Celebrating Mexican independence

September 13, 2008 By Pepe Lozano

The biggest national holiday in Mexico, and celebrated by Mexican people living all over the world, is Mexican Independence Day, Sept. 16. A little history: Before Mexico became Mexico, indigenous people first cultivated and inhabited the...