Black History Month is American History Month
Black History Month is American History Month. It's too long for a hashtag. But what better way to honor the legacies of founding African American historians?
The poisoned cookie of “white skin privilege”
Progressive people must rise to the challenge. We must make clear to white people that they are being conned by the frontmen of the one percent.
Sara Alchermes, 100: tireless fighter for peace and social justice
Sara's passion for knowledge never waned, and she was especially well read in current events. Her absence is deeply felt by all who knew her.
The significance of the Howard Morgan victory for our movement
We saw from the very beginning that we would have to build a mass protest movement to to free Howard Morgan, and we did just that.
Muslim lives matter and all victims of hate crimes matter too
Perhaps the mother of all evils, or shall we say, the most potent of all evils in history has been ignorance and greed.
Three-fifths a citizen: Are corporations really people?
Today there is another group who has figured out how to use the language of citizenship to twist the rules in their favor: Corporations.
More military force is not the answer
President Obama's request to authorize use of military force against the so-called Islamic State opens unhappy comparisons with earlier misguided U.S. military ventures.
Terrorism and the lessons of African American history
President Obama cautioned us not to judge the more than a billion and half Muslims by the actions of relatively few violent extremists.
Lilo Heller, 94: Holocaust victim and citizen of the world
Lilo Heller, a Holocaust survivor, was born in Germany in 1921 and witnessed the rise of Nazism.
Walking with the poor
"The poor you have with you always." Jesus is said to have spoken these words, but he certainly didn't mean that his followers should aim to keep it that way.
