The controversial statue honoring Dr. J. Marion Sims, known as “the father of gynecology” for his medical advances in the…
Update to this slightly edited article, originally published in Workers World on March 3, 2016: Not only is Dr. Hooker…
Black history includes the hiring of the first and only Black female professional football coach in the U.S. She is…
Native Hawaiians commemorated the overthrow of the Kingdom of Hawai’i on Jan. 17 in Honolulu. It was on that date…
New York City media reported Jan. 11 on the results of Mayor Bill de Blasio’s monthslong Commission on City Art,…
Tamika Mallory, Black activist, organizer and co-chair of the Jan. 21 Women’s March on Washington, D.C., was removed from an…
The Caribbean island of Puerto Rico has been a colony since it was invaded by the U.S. in 1898. Puerto…
More than just torrential rains and flooding from Hurricane Harvey have put Houston in the spotlight. The fourth-largest city in…
The struggle is growing for the removal of racist Dr. James Marion Sims’ statue from New York City’s Central Park.…
An estimated 10,000 African-American women, men and children participated in a silent march in New York City on July 28,…