African American

Tribute honors life & legacy of Leo Robinson

San Francisco — Under the dome of the William B. Chester Hiring Hall of International Longshore and Warehouse Union Local 10…

March 27, 2013

Racism, exploitation & profits: The REAL ‘March Madness’

This year marks the 75th anniversary of March Madness in the U.S. On the surface, this term refers to three…

March 25, 2013

Latina activists present play on ‘audacious’ Harriet Tubman

Bronx, N.Y. — For the second week in a row, a local stage production in commemoration of the centennial death of…

March 25, 2013

Philadelphia’s ‘1% mayor’ shouted down during budget speech

Philadelphia — Hundreds of American Federation of State, County and Municipal Employees District Council 33 and District Council 47 workers, electricians, school crossing guards,…

March 19, 2013

VAWA’s major flaw: Increased incarceration of women of color

The reauthorization of the Violence Against Women Act (VAWA), first passed in 1994, became a flashpoint in “the war against…

March 8, 2013

From Alabama to Michigan, Black vote is under attack

Forty-eight years after passage of the Voting Rights Act of 1965, the Supreme Court is currently deliberating about the historic…

March 6, 2013

Sexism, class society and the Oscars

The following article is based on a talk given by Monica Moorehead, a WW managing editor and WWP Secretariat member,…

March 6, 2013

Baltimore community groups sue to stop school closing

Community organizations in Baltimore have opened a struggle to keep a high school open in defiance of the city school…

February 28, 2013

Trayvon Martin: One year later

Black History Month was an important concession won in 1926 by a persistent mass struggle against racist lynchings and semi-slavery…

February 27, 2013

Black History forum: Obama, Harriet Tubman & jobs

A dynamic Black History Month forum took place Feb. 23 in the new office of the New York City branch…

February 27, 2013