CPUSA @ 90: How Minnesota Communists helped organize car wash
We continue our series on the 90th Anniversary of the Communist Party USA with an excerpt of an interview with Betty Smith, director of International Publishers - the publishing house of the CPUSA.
Why Bank of America fired me
In this YouTube video, a Bank of America worker blows the whistle on her former employer.
Terrorist with connections: the strange case of Luis Posada Carriles
Posada, would-be assassin of Fidel Castro, confessed bomber of Cuban tourist hotels and murderer of an Italian tourist, with a long CIA career, has won another trial delay.
In key Senate race, Democrats are divided
In Ohio, one leading Democrat is seen as having a better chance of winning in November, but the other has more money and is ahead in primary polls.
ESPN honors Daily Worker sports editor Lester Rodney
Lester Rodney was a crusader for equality and instrumental in integrating baseball as sports editor with the Daily Worker in the 1930s, says ESPN in a recent video on its website.
Teacher dies in hail of handgun bullets
Killing of teacher Jennifer Paulson, 30, in Tacoma, Wash., following Colorado school shootings, spurs calls for tighter gun control.
Black history, labor history intertwined in Detroit
Between the two World Wars, the groundwork was laid in Detroit's Black community that culminated in the organizing of the world's most powerful corporation.
Philly celebrates African American history with calls for peace action
PHILADELPHIA -- More than 50 people crowded into the Du Bois Center on Baltimore Avenue in West Philadelphia last Friday to hear Anthony Monteiro, professor of African American Studies at Temple University, deliver a history lecture.
For one county, the worst is yet to come
For at least one California county's budget it's a crisis that will only get worse.
Black History Month: Working together for justice
Connecticut Black History Month event features author Dr. Gerald Horne and the New Haven Firebirds.
