Nadine Gordimer, Nobel laureate, activist, dies
Gordimer won the Nobel Prize for literature in 1991 for novels that explored the complex relationships and human cost of racial conflict in apartheid-era South Africa.
We remember Rubin Hurricane Carter
Brother Carter's struggle was our struggle, what they did to him they did to us because racism is the common thread that twines our lives together.
Mike Giocondo, 85: Fighter for justice at home and abroad
Mike Giocondo has died in the Community Hospice of Northeast Florida in Jacksonville one week after being admitted for heart failure.
Gabo lives
Novelist Gabriel García Márquez died on April 17, 2014 in Mexico City. His 1967 novel "One Hundred Years of Solitude" gained him the Nobel Prize in literature in 1982.
Socialist and journalist Carl Bloice dies at 75
Carl Bloice focused his daily and weekly and monthly journalistic production on economics, on the struggle for equality, on youth, especially African American, Latino and Asian youth in his hometown, on internationalism.
Melba Hernandez, 93; leader of the Cuban Revolution
On Mar. 9, Cuba and the world lost a remarkable revolutionary figure, Melba Hernandez Rey, age 93. The cause of death was complications of diabetes.
Tony Benn: British labor giant dies
Tony leaves behind the books and wonderful diaries he wrote and the enormous admiration and the friendship of millions of people.
Starkovich loved unions, children, flowers....despised redbaiters, unionbusters!
Nearly 200 people gathered at the Urban Horticulture Center to honor George Tony Starkovich for his lifelong work as a union organizer, an activist for jobs, peace, and equality. Starkovich died February 26 at age 91.
“Revolutionary” mayor, Chokwe Lumumba of Jackson, Miss., dies
Jackson Mayor Chokwe Lumumba, who has been described as "America's most revolutionary mayor," died suddenly Feb. 25 at the age of 66.
Labor stalwart Lonnie Nelson dies at 83
She was 83 years old and was active in the people's movements and in her Communist Party club until stricken by a stroke a few days before her death, Feb. 12.
