Dolores Cox

Women’s inspiring role in Cuban revolution

Annually each March during Women’s History Month, the Federation of Cuban Women sends a delegation to New York City to…

March 21, 2015

African-American jockeys battle racism

The Saratoga Race Course in Saratoga Springs, N.Y., celebrated its 150th anniversary in 2013.  It  opened in 1863, and became a…

February 9, 2015

African Burial Ground exposes slavery

Yes, slavery existed in the North, too. New York was one of the largest centers of slaveholding in the U.S.…

February 5, 2015

Lynne Stewart reflects on a year free from prison

New Year’s Eve marked the one-year anniversary of the release from prison of people’s lawyer Lynne Stewart, who was imprisoned…

January 14, 2015

The KKK and Ferguson

Domestic terrorism is not new in the United States. Following the Emancipation Proclamation by President Abraham Lincoln in 1863 freeing…

November 25, 2014

A look back to 1983: U.S. invaded, occupied Grenada

October 25 was the 31st anniversary of the U.S. invasion, occupation and bombing of the island nation of Grenada. The…

November 6, 2014

Central Park Five settlement finalized

“This is now the icing on the cake,” said Raymond Santana, one of the Central Park Five. “My whole life…

September 19, 2014

Walking while Black — U.S. society divided by racism

The “crime” of walking while Black — and driving, shopping, sitting, standing and merely existing while Black — in the…

September 8, 2014

Central Park 5 talk about settlement

On June 19, 2014, twelve years after the filing of a lawsuit by the Central Park 5 — five innocent…

June 30, 2014

A tribute to ‘Ancestors of the Middle Passage’

Brooklyn, N.Y. -- On June 14 from noon to sunset, the 25th annual “Tribute to Our Ancestors of the Middle…

June 27, 2014