Black History Month celebration honors community leaders
It was a night to celebrate, to recount history, to look to struggles yet to come. A night to dream, to dance, to sing songs, and hear poetry.
Today in black history: Michael Jackson wins 8 Grammys
On February 28, 1984, musician and entertainer Michael Jackson won an amazing eight awards at the 26th Grammy Awards show:
Federal IDs for all workers: A trial balloon?
The Senate is considering a bipartisan plan to require all working people in the U.S. to carry a biometric ID card with their finger prints or other markers.
Political and community leaders highlight strategies for African American community
A who's who of leaders in the African American community came together with hundreds of community members.
Communist Party head in historic debate at Univ of Georgia
In 1963, the Phi Kappa Literary Society at the University of Georgia invited a speaker from the Communist Party to the campus for a public debate.
Black history exhibit features Maryland protests of 1940s-50s
Struggles against segregation and for militant trade unionism in Maryland were the subject of a Feb. 23 Black History Month program sponsored by the Baltimore Marxist Labor Forum.
The war in Newark, 1967
I sat for two hours copying word for word the reports of the gunshot wounds that ultimately killed 26 people in Newark. Most of them died from gunshot wounds in the back.
The Congressional crisis calendar countdown
For two years, we have had continual crises with debt ceilings, budget resolutions, and really big scary numbers.
Labor mobilizes to save Voting Rights Act
Voting rights were high on the agenda of the AFL-CIO's executive council meeting February 27 as the Supreme Court heard a challenge to Section 5 of the landmark 1965 Voting Rights Act.
