Black History Month

From Reconstruction to Malcolm X: Black history is about struggle

This article, originally entitled “Taking back Black history from the 1%,” is based on a speech given by Monica Moorehead,…

February 8, 2024

Black labor: From chattel slavery to wage slavery – Part 1

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

February 7, 2024

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

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

February 7, 2024

What is Black excellence? – letter to the editors

Black History Month is a time when Black excellence is celebrated, a time when accomplishments by Black Americans of note…

February 25, 2022

Taking back Black history from the 1%

Karl Marx said in 1845: “The ideas of the ruling class are in every epoch the ruling ideas, i.e., the…

March 14, 2014

Baltimore SCLC leader announces May 11 march on D.C.

Excerpts from a talk by the Rev. Cortly “C.D.” Witherspoon, president of the Baltimore area Southern Christian Leadership Conference and…

March 12, 2013

Harriet Tubman and her role in the struggle against slavery

Excerpts taken from a talk given by Brenda Stokely, Million Worker March Movement leader and a representative of the International…

March 11, 2013