Monica Moorehead

En el espíritu del Dr. Rev. Martin Luther King, Jr. los trabajadores de Bessemer luchan por justicia

El 29 de marzo concluyeron unas históricas elecciones sindicales después de que 5.800 trabajadores de los almacenes de Amazon, más…

April 5, 2021

In the spirit of Dr. Rev. Martin Luther King, Jr., Bessemer workers fight for justice

A historic union election concluded March 29 after 5,800 Amazon warehouse workers, over 80% of them African American, voted on…

March 30, 2021

NCAA exposed for sexist practices in women’s basketball

March Madness is underway — an annual two-and-a-half week tournament that seeds 68 men’s basketball teams belonging to National Collegiate…

March 30, 2021

One year after her death – Remembering Breonna Taylor

At first, few people knew of the heinous crime carried out by three white Louisville, Ky., police officers responsible for…

March 9, 2021

George Jackson on the role of prisons, 50 years after his death

This year will mark the 50th anniversary of the assassination of George Jackson, an African American prison leader sentenced to…

February 19, 2021

L.D. Barkley — A leader in the Attica uprising

This year marks the 50th anniversary of the Attica Prison Uprising. The following slightly edited excerpt is from the book…

February 17, 2021

Montgomery Bus Boycott, Bessemer, prisons – Class struggle then and now

Fifty years after the end of the U.S. Civil War — and during the height of horrific lynchings of Black…

February 16, 2021

Reparations, health care and the pandemic

The late John Conyers — U.S. Representative from Michigan and a member of the Congressional Black Caucus — introduced bill…

February 8, 2021

Remembering Rosa Parks on the anniversary of her birth

When I was three years old in 1955, my parents lived in Montgomery, Ala. They attended the Dexter Avenue Baptist…

February 8, 2021

NFL union’s solidarity with Bessemer Amazon workers right to a union

Following the May 25, 2020, public murder of 46-year-old George Floyd by Minneapolis police, masses of people took to the…

February 2, 2021