African Americans

War-fueled racism and xenophobia rising 80 years after ‘Internment’

People who knew about this sordid anniversary in the history of the United States empire marked it Feb. 19. On…

March 7, 2022

Black labor: From chattel slavery to wage slavery/ Part 2

The following is excerpted from Chapter 2 of Marcy’s “High Tech, Low Pay: A Marxist analysis of the changing character…

February 14, 2020

Katrina + 10: Natural disaster or forced removals?

It has been a decade since the people of New Orleans and the Gulf Coast were dislocated due to the…

September 2, 2015

Charleston Days of Grace

Organizing is accelerating for the “Days of Grace, Love’s Work Is Justice” events to be held in Charleston, S.C., over…

August 25, 2015

Former Black Panther killed in California prison

Hugo Pinell, 71, a former comrade of George L. Jackson, was killed on Aug. 12 in California State Prison-Sacramento near…

August 19, 2015

50th anniversary of Watts Rebellion

Just five days after the signing of the Voting Rights Act of 1965, the Watts Rebellion erupted. It lasted several…

August 12, 2015

Police terror rises

One year after Mike Brown’s murder A Department of Justice study completed earlier this year and released to the press…

August 4, 2015

Who gets credit for removing Confederate flag?

Finally. The profoundly offensive, pro-slavery Confederate flag no longer flies high in front of the State House grounds in Columbia,…

July 13, 2015

Victory for disability rights, motivation to fight still harder

July marks the 25th anniversary of the passage of the Americans with Disabilities Act. The entire month has been declared…

July 9, 2015

Septima Clark and the role of civil rights education in South Carolina and beyond

Since the massacre of nine African Americans at the Mother Emmanuel African Methodist Episcopal Church, we have reviewed the legacy…

July 4, 2015