Racism and Self-Determination

Racist statue of Dr. James Marion Sims comes down

The controversial statue honoring Dr. J. Marion Sims, known as “the father of gynecology” for his medical advances in the…

April 21, 2018

BLM blocks streets over police killings

A bold Black Lives Matter march took Atlanta’s main downtown artery, Peachtree Street, on April 15 to demand justice for…

April 19, 2018

Chicago: ‘No monuments to racism’

Near a busy corner on Chicago's South Side, on April 7, cars slowed and passersby honked or raised their fists…

April 12, 2018

End police murders = Abolish capitalism

The recent police executions of two Black men — Stephon Clark in Sacramento, Calif., and Saheed Vassell in Brooklyn, N.Y.…

April 10, 2018

North Carolina workers continue MLK’s fight for economic and civil rights

Durham, N.C. — When the Rev. Dr. Martin Luther King Jr. came to Memphis, Tenn., in support of striking sanitation…

April 10, 2018

Workers mass in Memphis commemorate Dr. King and sanitation strikers

Memphis, Tenn., April 4 — Thousands of people from far and wide, including worker delegations, gathered here on the 50th…

April 10, 2018

Dr. Olivia Hooker, teacher, survivor of 1921 Tulsa racist attack

Update to this slightly edited article, originally published in Workers World on March 3, 2016: Not only is Dr. Hooker…

April 6, 2018

Police murder of Stephon Clark ignites militant protests

The heinous murder of 22-year-old African-American Stephon Clark by the Sacramento, Calif., police on the night of March 18 continues…

April 3, 2018

‘End police terror’ rings out in midtown Manhattan

More than 1,500 people took the streets of New York City on March 28 to demand an immediate end to…

April 3, 2018

Lessons of the April 1968 Black rebellions

Following are excerpts from an April 11, 1968, WW article by Workers World Party founding chairperson Sam Marcy, a week…

April 3, 2018