racism

Paul Robeson: The tallest tree in our forest

April 7, 2006 By Marilyn Bechtel

Paul Robeson’s legacy in the 21st century OAKLAND — Fifty years ago, when legendary civil rights and peace leader, athlete, and artist Paul Robeson was being hounded by McCarthy-era witch-hunting committees, deprived of his livelihood and...

Einstein in the hood. BOOK REVIEW: Einstein on Race and Racism.

February 24, 2006 By Special to People’s World

Princeton was a southern town in northern gown. Segregation of Blacks from whites was widely practiced and enforced. Einstein, a German-born Jew and naturalized American citizen, was acutely aware of what racism is and does, and...

Racist found guilty in 1964 Mississippi killings

June 24, 2005 By Combined Sources

On June 21 a jury of nine whites and three Blacks in Philadelphia, Miss., convicted octogenarian and former Ku Klux Klan leader Edgar Ray Killen of manslaughter, exactly 41 years after the triple slaying of young...

Jim Crow revived in cyberspace

June 13, 2003 By Martin Luther King III And Greg Palast

Opinion Astonishingly, and sadly, four decades after the Rev. Martin Luther King Jr. marched in Birmingham, we must ask again, “Do African Americans have the unimpeded right to vote in the United States?”

San Francisco: Thousands march against war, racism and poverty

April 26, 2002 By Meizhu Lui And Rose Brewer

SAN FRANCISCO – In the largest peace demonstration the Bay Area has seen in many years, more than 35,000 people from all nationalities and political persuasions rallied and marched April 20 for an end to the...