African Americans

Oklahoma execution exposes death penalty: Cruel but usual

The heart attack that killed death row prisoner Clayton Lockett on April 29 after the state of Oklahoma tried to…

May 5, 2014

Six unelected men deliver blow to Civil Rights

The unelected U.S. Supreme Court has delivered a sharp blow to rights won through mass struggles against racism. In a…

April 29, 2014

National Urban League report illustrates decline in employment and wages for African Americans, Latinos/as

Even though the administration of President Barack Obama has said that the Great Recession has been over for four years,…

April 16, 2014

The National Question & Black Liberation

In commemoration of Lenin's death 90 years ago. Excerpted from a talk given at the March 29, 2014, “Hard Times…

April 9, 2014

A U.S. Truth And Reconciliation Commission on Racism

In the United States, a country ruled by the ideology and practice of white supremacy since its inception, a Truth…

February 24, 2014

Malcolm X and global Black struggle

In March 1964, Malcolm X announced his official departure from the Nation of Islam. He had spent 12 years working…

February 19, 2014

After emancipation, ‘Sick from freedom’

Last year the U.S. commemorated the 150th anniversary of President Abraham Lincoln’s signing of the Emancipation Proclamation, which gave enslaved…

February 15, 2014

Fannie Lou Hamer remains a symbol 50 years after Freedom Summer

More than 1,000 student volunteers, along with rank-and-file workers and professionals from the northern and western cities of the U.S.,…

February 7, 2014

African Americans still not recovered from Great Recession

Despite claims that the country is in a gradual economic recovery, millions are being thrown into poverty and prolonged joblessness.…

November 10, 2013

Health care for all? Catch-22 denies 8 million!

If you live in Texas and are one of the 1.5 million people who have low incomes and hoped to…

October 9, 2013