Dianne Mathiowetz

On strike for a year, Alabama coal miners say: ‘We won’t back down!’

Tannehill Ironworks State Park McCalla, Alabama April 6 – Thousands of coal miners, supporters, labor leaders and rank-and-file union members…

April 11, 2022

Georgia rally demands: ‘No prisons for profit!’

Atlanta March 3 — Immigrant rights groups and other social justice organizations responded to a call from the Detention Watch…

March 9, 2022

Unions rally for Alabama Amazon workers

Bessemer, Alabama The weather was cool in Alabama on Feb. 26, but the Amazon workers’ spirits were hot! A crowd…

March 1, 2022

Federal jury finds: Ahmaud Arbery’s killers ‘guilty of hate crimes’

  Atlanta February 23: Today is Ahmaud Arbery Day, as declared by the Georgia General Assembly earlier this month. In…

February 24, 2022

What’s next after Ahmaud Arbery’s killers held ‘accountable’

Judge Timothy Walmsley delivered sentences to the convicted murderers of Ahmaud Arbery on Jan. 7. The 25-year-old Black man was…

January 10, 2022

Black pastors protest racism, gather to support Arbery family

Atlanta  In the town of Brunswick, Georgia, Gregory McMichael, his son Travis McMichael and their neighbor, William “Roddie” Bryant, are…

November 23, 2021

Mother’s five-year struggle wins a victory
Cops indicted in Jamarion Robinson’s death

Atlanta, Oct. 31 Monteria Robinson’s life changed Aug. 5, 2016. That day a 16-person police force from multiple agencies under…

November 2, 2021

One more white supremacist symbol falls

Decatur, Georgia A diverse crowd gathered on Decatur Square on Indigenous Peoples Day on Oct. 11, to honor the Muscogee…

October 12, 2021

78th birthday of Imam Jamil Al-Amin

The 78th birthday of political prisoner Imam Jamil Al-Amin (formerly known as the Black militant activist, H. Rap Brown) was…

October 11, 2021

A broken taillight – an excuse for police murder?

Atlanta On Aug. 7, 2020, 60-year-old Julian Lewis, a semiretired Black carpenter, was driving home in Sylvania, Ga., after going…

September 28, 2021