Mob protest at Ground Zero takes aim at Bill of Rights
NEW YORK - An angry mob showed up in lower Manhattan to protest the opening of an "extremist Islamic center that aims to mock the tragedy of Sept. 11, 2001, and create an army of jihadists who'll wage a battle that will eventually, if successful, destroy the America."
‘Good Hair’: About us but not for us
Documentary films are often powerful in doing what typical mainstream media outfits can't: accidentally reveal truths.
A ragged process
Slightly over a year ago, the American people elected a young African American to the presidency and increased the Democratic majorities in the Congress.
Detroit is Haiti: unforgivably Black
Time Magazine has decided to zero in on Detroit; here's a reaction from one lifelong Detroiter.
Letters
In spite of opposition from a growing majority of Americans, the bureaucratic, diplomatic, military juggernaut known as the “mission in Afghanistan” is bound to be serviced with fresh troops and lots of new money. The only debate among Washington elites is over just how large this escalation will be.
Book exposes wage theft and how to stop it
"Is that about the two and half million prison workers?" my nurse asked as she walked to my bed. I was reading Kim Bobo's book,
LETTERS, September 5, 2009
Way ahead of tea-baggers
We have to fight
Funny story
Role of the left
McCain wins White House!
A year ago on Labor Day, the nightmare scenario described in the headline above was still a real possibility. Labor and its allies went on to make sure that something quite different unfolded, but what if it had actually happened the way the headline says it did?
I was there – Peekskill 1949
On August 27, 1949, Paul Robeson was scheduled to sing at a concert sponsored by the music group People’s Artists at the Lakeland Acres Picnic Grounds, a few miles north of Peekskill, New York, about fifty miles north of New York City. This was a favorite summer resort area frequented by progressive intellectuals, especially because of its proximity to Croton-on-Hudson, where many progressive artists and writers lived. The author, Howard Fast, who was vacationing in Croton-on-Hudson, was asked to chair the concert.
Peekskill remembered
The concert scheduled for Aug. 27, 1949, in Peekskill, N.Y., was supposed to be routine. Though it had been organized by People's Artists, a brand new spin-off organization of the People's Songs formation that had launched the Weavers into the top-40 charts, it was the fourth such concert to benefit the Harlem Chapter of the Civil Rights Congress.
