African American

Berkeley, Calif., gears up to save post office

Berkeley, Calif. — A special meeting of the Berkeley City Council’s Post Office Committee drew more than 100 people on…

February 19, 2013

Claudia Jones defied racism, sexism and class oppression

Professor Carole Boyce Davies of Cornell University has continued unearthing the life and political legacy of Claudia Vera Jones (1915-1964),…

February 6, 2013

Winner at Sundance: ‘Fruitvale’ is about police killing of Oscar Grant

African-American writer/director Ryan Coogler graduated from the University of Southern California School of Cinematic Arts only two years ago, but…

January 28, 2013

MLK’s legacy & the labor movement

The Rev. Dr. Martin Luther King Jr. would have been 84 years old this Jan. 15. His legacy today is…

January 20, 2013

Struggle heats up against racist frame-ups in North Carolina

Durham, N.C. — On Jan. 10, a big rally took place here outside Durham County Jail to free Carlos Riley Jr.,…

January 18, 2013

Southern conference in solidarity with nurses, dock workers

Charleston, S.C. — People from the West Coast and across the country traveled to Charleston, S.C., to attend the ninth biannual…

December 20, 2012

Another racist vigilante slaying

Jordan Russell Davis was with friends in an SUV listening to music in a gas station in Jacksonville, Fla., over…

December 19, 2012

Schools push students to for-profit prisons

While U.S. corporations seem unwilling to cut into their profits to provide living-wage jobs for millions of unemployed youth, for-profit…

December 13, 2012

Workers World Party conference: ‘We’ve achieved much this year’

  Following are excerpts from a welcoming talk given by Eva Panjwani at the Nov. 17-18 Workers World Party conference…

December 2, 2012

A crisis within a crisis: Lack of response to Sandy in New Jersey

Jersey City, N.J. — Nearly a week after Hurricane Sandy struck, as cold weather sets in and a new nor’easter storm…

November 5, 2012