U.S. and Canada

Performers, artists hold #JusticeforFlint event

In the tradition of Black actors and artists like Harry Belafonte who used their celebrity to help advance the Civil…

March 5, 2016

Baltimore rally demands: Justice for Aaron Winston!

Activists from the Baltimore Peoples Power Assembly and the Baltimore Southern Christian Leadership Conference marked the anniversary of Trayvon Martin’s…

March 5, 2016

Parents of police victims ask, ‘Where do we go from here?’

Oakland, Calif. -- The Oscar Grant family hosted an “Oscar Grant Legacy Weekend Birthday Celebration” on Feb. 27. It started…

March 5, 2016

Wisconsin Black Lives Matter: Still no justice, no peace

Black Lives Matter activists and allies in Milwaukee and Madison, Wis., are holding a series of events in March and…

March 5, 2016

Helen Keller: Socialist, anti-racist, disability rights activist

Helen Keller is perhaps remembered by most people in the U.S. for one moment in her life, dramatized in the…

March 5, 2016

Salt Lake City protesters say, ‘Stop killing Black people!’

Salt Lake City, March 3 -- Hundreds of people flooded downtown Salt Lake City on the evening of Feb. 29…

March 3, 2016

Detroit officials nervous as public anger grows

Former-Detroit Mayor Dave Bing is warning local corporate leaders that the city could be on the verge of an urban…

March 2, 2016

What We Stand for. What We Fight For.

We want an end to the war on Black lives and ALL people of African descent worldwide. Reparations NOW! We…

March 2, 2016

Lessons of the Boston School Bus Drivers’ victory

After more than two years of hard-fought struggle, last year the militant, fighting rank and file of the Boston School…

March 2, 2016

Six-month lockout ends at ATI

The specialty steel company Allegheny Technologies Inc. has ended its lockout of the workers. After demanding the Steelworkers union hold…

March 2, 2016