Today in black history: NAACP founded
On this day in 1909, the National Association for the Advancement of Colored People - one of America's oldest civil rights organizations - was formed.
Conversation: How Black freedom struggle shapes America
Join People's World in celebrating African American History Month with a national teleconference presentation by Prof. Jamie Wilson.
Better know an owner: Clippers’ outrageous Donald Sterling
It is incredibly ugly that owners such as Donald Sterling can latch themselves onto the games we enjoy and wreak so much social havoc.
Virginia town was center of civil rights struggle
Dr. Martin Luther King Jr. in 1963 called the Danville Police Department one of the most brutal and vicious he had come across.
I remember the Scottsboro defense
The decision to fight for the Scottsboro Nine was preceded by years of activity led by the Communist Party and its predecessor organizations.
NY Times: Turning truth on its head — The Scottsboro case
This week a bipartisan group of Alabama state lawmakers introduced a bill to exonerate the victims of a racist frame-up.
Today in labor history: Radical Reconstruction and 40 acres and a mule
In 1866, Thaddeus Stevens offered an amendment to a bill requiring 40 acre plots be parceled out to former slaves from both confiscated and public land in the former slave South.
Today in history: Civil rights activist Rosa Parks born 100 years ago
In honor of the centennial of the birth of Rosa Parks, we are rerunning the following People's World article, "Rosa Parks: courageous fighter for justice, " by Debbie Bell.
Gerda Lerner, pioneering scholar of women's, African-American history
Gerda Lerner, whose life went from Jewish radical activist in Austria to refugee from Nazism to prominent U.S. historian, passed away in Madison, Wisc., at the age of 92, this month.
Today in labor history: Prince Hall, revolutionary abolitionist, dies
Prince Hall, revolutionary, abolitionist and Masonic leader, died in Boston on Dec. 4, 1807.
