CPUSA in the 1960s: an interview with Jarvis Tyner
Jarvis Tyner is the executive vice chair of the Communist Party USA and the chair of the party's African American Equality Commission. He joined the CPUSA in the early sixties, just as the Civil Rights Movement was maturing.
Black farmers gain in their fight for compensation
A new milestone was reached Feb. 18 in a longstanding civil rights case brought by African American farmers who suffered discrimination in federal loans and subsidies. Many of the farmers incurred huge debts or lost their land as a result.
Songs of civil rights movement ring out at White House
Songs linked to the great social change movements of our times echoed through the White House Feb. 9, with Smokey Robinson, Bob Dylan and other music legends at the microphone.
Lorraine Hansberry home gets landmark status
Chicago's City Council has given landmark status to the home of the author/activist who wrote "A Raisin in the Sun."
Jobs crisis spotlighted at monument built by WPA
DALLAS - At a Robert E. Lee memorial built by the New Deal's WPA government jobs program, an NAACP leader and others called for federal action on jobs.
ACLU challenges disfranchisement
The American Civil Liberties Uunion has filed a federal lawsuit in South Dakota on behalf of Native American voters who were denied the right to vote in 2008.
Highlighting the work of Claudia Jones and Shirley Graham Du Bois
In honor of African American History Month, the fourth and fifth article in our series on the Communist Party's 90th anniversary will survey documents written by leading African American women party members.
Communist Party and African American equality - a focus unequaled in U.S. history
A look at writings of leading African American members of the Communist Party USA on the struggle against racism over four decades.
Dallas re-lives its Black history
The Dallas Peace Center jump-started Black History Month by inviting the Rev. James Lawson, one of the most famous of Dr. Martin Luther King Jr.'s contemporaries in the civil rights movement, for a three-day tour.
The Communist Party and the press: A glimpse at nine decades
Over 90 years, the Communist Party USA has been a pioneer in using reporting and media to get its message out and build mass movements.
