Messing around with our citizenship
Taking advantage of the failed bombing attempt in New York City's Times Square, for which Faisal Shahzad, a naturalized U.S. citizen of Pakistani origin, has been arrested, U.S. Sens. Joe Lieberman, Independent-Conn., and Scott Brown, R-Mass., have introduced the Terrorist Expatriation Act
Capitalism replaces human rights with inhuman rights
Proclaiming that "all men are born free and equal" and that government of the people arises from the citizens themselves, rather than from any "divine right," the French Revolution began a new era in human history.
Hidden from history: Communists and civil rights
Recently I've been watching reruns of Eyes on the Prize--the old PBS documentary about the history of the civil rights movement--and a thought keeps barging in that wasn't there when I first saw it back in 1987: Why doesn't the Communist Party get some air time in this program?
Price too high to pay
Anti-union attacks exact a price. That price was paid by more than two dozen workers in West Virginia. Too high a price to pay.
The truth behind the death of a Cuban hunger striker
Orlando Zapata Tamayo died of respiratory failure in a Cuban hospital on February 23 after an 83 day hunger strike
Black History video celebrates change-making movements
Video celebrates Black History Month with interviews of two Southern California participants in the great social movements for democracy and equality.
Americans get fired for nothing
Book Review: "Can They Do That? Retaking Our Fundamental Rights in the Workplace"
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.
Setting the record straight for Emmett Till
A review of "Simeon's Story, An Eyewitness Account of the Kidnapping of Emmett Till" and an interview with the author, Simeon Wright.
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."
