Beatrice Lumpkin

Beatrice Lumpkin is a long time labor activist with laundry workers, steelworkers, and teachers. As a math professor at Malcolm X College in Chicago, she fought to restore the contributions of people of color to the educational curriculum. She has served as a multicultural consultant to textbook publishers and to public schools in Chicago, Detroit, Milwaukee, and Portland, Ore. She is the author of “Always Bring a Crowd, the story of Frank Lumpkin Steelworker” and “Joy in the Struggle, My Life and Love.” Beatrice Lumpkin is an active member of the Teachers Union and SOAR.

LATEST ARTICLES BY Beatrice Lumpkin

Opinion

Do we need public education?
March 18, 2014 By Beatrice Lumpkin
The public pays for charter schools through their taxes, has no input into their educational practices. Unlike Chicago public schools, neither parents nor community control anything a charter school does.
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Opinion

1948: Pete Seeger and Henry Wallace
January 31, 2014 By Beatrice Lumpkin
I heard Pete Seeger many times, but the most stirring was his 1948 appearance in Buffalo, N.Y., at a rally for Henry Wallace.
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World

After a long winter, tropical rain forest sounded lovely
March 25, 2013 By Beatrice Lumpkin
I learned that the political left was influential in Costa Rica. But they were divided. A united left could form a winning coalition. The people of Costa Rica deserve nothing less.
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U.S.

Chicagoans organize to keep health clinics open
April 27, 2012 By Beatrice Lumpkin
Patient advocate N'Dana Carter chaired the conference. She reminded everyone that the clinic was reopened under the influence of a community protest.
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Labor

We Are One Illinois fights back
October 31, 2011 By Beatrice Lumpkin
Thousands of union members overflowed the Illinois Statehouse to defend their pensions and collective bargaining rights.
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Labor

400 union women at confab demand equality and union rights
September 16, 2011 By Beatrice Lumpkin
Over 400 union women came to the Coalition of Labor Union Women's 16th Biennial Convention in Orlando, September 7-10, to demand equality and to defend union rights. The women came from many different unions to speak...
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U.S.

Chicago rally: Hands off Social Security, Medicare and Medicaid
July 25, 2011 By Beatrice Lumpkin
It was 101 degrees in the shade, but that didn't stop 200 white-haired retirees and others from rallying against any cuts to these programs.
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World

Vietnam: a wonderful destination
March 9, 2011 By Patricia Flagg Poole And Beatrice Lumpkin
Vietnam is becoming a tourist paradise, and word is getting out.
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