A day in Immigration court

February 13, 2016

Detroit -- I accompanied a teenager to immigration court. She is one of the thousands of unaccompanied youth who traveled alone…

Send Leonard Peltier home!

February 13, 2016

New York, Feb. 6 — African-American, Puerto Rican, Palestinian and other organizations joined with the attorneys for Native political prisoner Leonard…

‘BIG MAMA’ THORNTON and reparations

February 13, 2016

You have probably heard of Elvis Presley and perhaps even heard him sing, “I ain’t nothin’ but a hound dog.”…

On the picket line

February 13, 2016

Fast food workers strike in Iowa A few hours before the Jan. 28 Republican presidential primary debate in Iowa, fast…

Hattie McDaniel: First Oscar-winning Black actor

February 11, 2016

Hollywood’s 2016 all-white Academy Award acting nominations carry on the tradition of excluding, more often than not, Black achievement in…

Record auto profits leave workers insecure

February 11, 2016

On Feb. 3, General Motors announced its profits for 2015. Even after taxes and interest, the company posted the highest…

How Black workers were decimated by racism

February 11, 2016

Michigan Gov. Rick Snyder isn’t the only criminal who should be punished for lead poisoning Flint’s children. General Motors impoverished…

Rallies say NO to anti-worker agenda

February 11, 2016

Rallies were held in three cities across West Virginia to fight the “right-to-work” (in unsafe conditions for less) legislation passed…

French documentary exposes neo-Nazi role in Ukraine

February 11, 2016

For the first time, the role of fascist politicians and neo-Nazi gangs in the 2014 U.S.-backed coup in Kiev has…

150 years of Black liberation struggles

February 10, 2016

On Jan. 1, 1863, President Abraham Lincoln issued the Emancipation Proclamation, which ostensibly eliminated chattel slavery in the antebellum South.…