Emancipation Proclamation

Juneteenth: emancipation, resistance and reparations

Houston This article, which appeared in the June 23, 2021, issue of Workers World, is being reprinted here to celebrate…

June 20, 2022

The significance of Juneteenth

This year marks the first anniversary of Juneteenth as an official federal holiday since it was signed into law June…

June 20, 2022

Ferguson rebellion and history of resistance

Taken from a talk given by Lamont Lilly at the Nov. 15-16 Workers World Party national conference.   In 1865,…

December 8, 2014

Ferguson and the unfinished revolution

The great struggle for justice by the African-American people of Ferguson, Mo., comes after a white cop there gunned down…

August 20, 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