Highlights from CPUSA’s 29th Convention, includes video
I had the great pleasure of attending the 29th National Convention of the Communist Party USA this past weekend in New York.
Austin Is Doing Something about AIDS
Chicago community comes together to create cultural, educational movement on AIDS awareness.
Communist Party convention opens in New York
Communist Party Chairman Sam Webb said executives who planned, aided and abetted the theft of wealth and sent the economy into a tailspin deserve to "be in prison."
New evidence surfaces on charter school scam
New evidence that charter schools provide inferior education but lucrative opportunities to scam the public has surfaced in a report issued Wednesday.
Weathering racial storms, Lena Horne rose above
Lena Horne, an African American pioneer who fought for equality as an artist-activist, died May 9 at age 92. She is remembered as a crusader for civil rights and a symbol of black pride.
TSU symposium explores the art of the African diaspora
Texas Southern University celebrates its museum's 10th anniversary with a symposium on the art of the African diaspora.
Michelle Obama to Haiti: U.S. and world stands with you
"It was important for Jill and I to come now because we're at the point where the relief efforts are under way but the attention of the world starts to wane a bit," Michelle Obama told reporters in Port-au-Prince.
After loan victory, students and labor keep up fight
Nationwide students are on the move this week leading rallies, marches and educational forums highlighting student-worker solidarity, the fight for jobs, worker rights and increased access to higher education during the 11th annual National Student Labor Week of Action.
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.
New York City threatens to evict public school in favor of charter
Privately-run, publically-funded charter schools are pushing out successful public schools in competition for scarce resources, leading to more segregation, more inequality.
