racism

Congressional Black Caucus tackles outsized coronavirus impact on African Americans

April 9, 2020 By Mark Gruenberg

“Blacks are nickeled and dimed” for both health services and access to other aid, says Rep. Sheila Jackson Lee.

Gerald Horne’s new book ‘White Supremacy Confronted’ relates apartheid to Jim Crow

March 26, 2020 By Tony Pecinovsky

The scale of "White Supremacy Confronted," though focused on the U.S. and South Africa, is global.

‘Something is Going On’: A white worker wakes up to racist police violence

March 6, 2020 By Chris Butters

This poem was part of the program at the New York CPUSA African-American History Celebration.

After a century or more of defeats, Congress finally declares lynching a hate crime

March 3, 2020 By Mark Gruenberg

At least 4,742 people, 99% of them African Americans, were lynched between 1892 and the mid-1950s.

LAPD’s secretive gang database and the intimidation of working-class communities

February 13, 2020 By David Trujillo

Targeting African-American and Latino youth in gang database logs is a modern form of long-established policies used by the police to target people of color.