First Jackie Robinson; now Jason Collins

May 9, 2013

When the great African-American baseball player, Jackie Robinson, broke the color barrier of the then all-white, segregated Major Baseball League…

Cuba’s Mariela Castro receives LGBT Equality Award

May 9, 2013

Mariela Castro Espín, the director of the Cuban National Center for Sex Education (CENESEX) in Havana, Cuba, and a deputy…

The Lessons of Temple U.

May 9, 2013

Taken from a April 18, 2013, column at prisonradio.org. The incipient, yet growing protests at Philadelphia’s Temple University around the…

Poor People’s March highlights police terror

May 8, 2013

A recent report from the Malcolm X Grassroots Movement concludes that Black people in the U.S. face a crisis in…

‘Why we are marching’

May 8, 2013

Workers World Editor Deirdre Griswold spoke with women in three cities who will be participating in the Poor People’s March…

Workers worldwide fight austerity, low wages

May 8, 2013

[gallery type="thumbnails" ids="8711,8710,8709,8708,8707,8706,8705,8704"] Millions marched in 80 countries to commemorate International Workers Day — May Day. They united in protest…

Poor People‘s March for jobs, justice

May 7, 2013

‘Ignite revolution Dr. King called for’ The following press statement was released by Witherspoon, president of the Baltimore chapter of…

‘Long Distance Revolutionary’: #1 documentary in Philadelphia

May 7, 2013

Philadelphia — In one of many milestones in the decades-long movement to free political prisoner Mumia Abu-Jamal, the documentary film "Long…

Assata Shakur is a modern-day Harriet Tubman

May 7, 2013

I had the distinct honor of meeting Assata Shakur in person at the 1997 World Youth Festival in Havana, Cuba.…

As French troops stay in Mali, suffering grows

May 7, 2013

French Defense Minister Jean-Yves Le Drian visited the West African state of Mali on April 26, where his troops have…