Racism and Self-Determination

Ida B. Wells: Anti-lynching crusader

The many references by African-American women intellectuals and activists to educational achievement, economic self-reliance, sobriety and religious adherence suggest that…

March 15, 2017

Anna Julia Haywood Cooper Vital to Pan-African movement

African-American women from the late 19th century to the early 20th century played a pivotal role in the internationalization of…

March 12, 2017

Seattle youth denounce racist attacks

A huge Black Lives Matter march of around 2,000 people took place in Seattle on the evening of March 4.…

March 12, 2017

Lynne Stewart: ¡Presente!

With deep sorrow we report that the courageous people’s attorney, Lynne Stewart, died on March 7. She spent more than…

March 9, 2017

Vigil demands justice for man slain by cops in Vallejo, Calif.

Vallejo, Calif. - Angel Rico Ramos, age 21, was killed by Vallejo, Calif., police on Jan. 23. To add to…

March 6, 2017

Protests erupt after Anaheim, Calif., cop grabs teen, fires weapon

Los Angeles - A mixed group of Anaheim students were walking home from school on Feb. 21, when an off-duty…

March 3, 2017

Lucy Parsons: A working-class founder of May Day

The class struggle was at fever pitch in Chicago in 1885. Unemployment was high, wages were low, and food prices…

March 1, 2017

Protest held outside racist restaurant

Grosse Pointe Farms, Mich. - When three African-American women went on their monthly social outing on a Saturday evening, they…

February 28, 2017

Federal court hears Yuvette Henderson case

Oakland, Calif. - Supporters of Yuvette Henderson’s family gathered at the U.S. Courthouse here on Feb. 23 and packed the…

February 27, 2017

Dr. Susan Smith McKinney Steward, pioneer in medicine

African-American history is part of U.S. history. In reclaiming that history, one African American to be remembered is Dr. Susan…

February 25, 2017