African American equality and immigrant rights: united we stand
All workers have a big stake in fight for immigrant rights and should reject those who are trying to use that issue to drive a wedge between people -- black, brown and white.
One family’s “American Violet” experience
When I saw "American Violet" recently, it really hit close to home. I kept flashing back to my family's own encounters with the law.
MLK was a working-class hero
"I AM A MAN," the signs proclaimed in large, bold letters. They were held high, proudly and defiantly, by African-American men marching through the streets of Memphis.
How the Greensboro sit-in ignited a social revolution
For us black high school students in the 1950s, it seemed like black people were always the victims. Greensboro was different.
James and Esther Jackson and the long civil rights revolution
A celebration this week recognized the contribution of the Jacksons and the Communist Party in the struggle for African American freedom, and welcomed the new book "Red Activists and Black Freedom."
Controversy rises over plans for Haiti
With Haiti very far from seeing an end to its tribulation, there is both cooperation and conflict in the rescue effort.
Thousands gather to commemorate a legend
Thousands from all corners of North Texas gathered to remember a man who lifted a nation into the fight for equality.
Why is confession of bank CEO being ignored?
Brian Moynihan, the new Bank of America CEO, recently gave a speech at the Eighth Annual Economic Forecast Forum in Raleigh, N.C.
16 workers killed per day, thoughts on Ft. Hood, ‘Precious’ and other letters to the editor
It is time to change the feeble and antiquated rules that fail to protect workers on the job. Sixteen workers are killed a day in the United States because of reckless negligence on the part of their employers.
Difficult victory
Overcoming the intense lobbying efforts of the health insurance-industrial complex and their far-right "tea party" stormtroopers, which spent some $640,000 a day opposing health care reform, the American people and their organizations, especially their unions, mobilized and pushed through a bill that can improve the health care system for millions of insured and uninsured people.
