Racism and Self-Determination

MLK Day in militant motion

Fierce determination marked this year’s Martin Luther King Day actions. Those who rallied during the Jan. 14-16 weekend pledged a…

January 19, 2017

Detroit MLK Day links struggles to defeat racism, war and poverty

In Detroit, this year’s Dr. Martin Luther King Jr. Day Rally and March was organized under the demands for “Jobs,…

January 19, 2017

Roanoke, Va., Martin Luther King Jr. Day parade

The annual Roanoke, Va., Martin Luther King Jr. Day parade Jan. 16 was sponsored by the Southern Christian Leadership Conference,…

January 19, 2017

Baltimore community coalition kicks off Trump resistance with Unity March

Less than 24 hours after the Senate took the first steps towards utterly obliterating health care for vulnerable U.S. residents,…

January 16, 2017

Virginia’s first-ever MLK Day march in Lexington

Rejecting white supremacy and embracing unity and solidarity, hundreds took to the streets on Jan. 14 in Lexington, Va., for…

January 16, 2017

Celebrating Dr. King the fighter in Newark, N.J.

By Johnnie Stevens and Steve Millies Over 100 people demonstrated in Newark, N.J., on Jan. 15 to celebrate the Rev.…

January 16, 2017

Buffalo, N.Y.: Ousting a school board racist bigot

Dozens of people marched to protest outside the home of local millionaire developer and Buffalo school board member Carl Paladino…

January 16, 2017

Can reforms stop police terror in Chicago?

It took the U.S. Department of Justice 13 months to determine what everyone in Chicago already knows -- that the…

January 16, 2017

Dr. King’s Legacy: Linking struggle at home and abroad relevant today

When Dr. Martin Luther King Jr. spoke at Riverside Church in New York City on April 4, 1967, he denounced…

January 14, 2017

Chicago and racist oppression

This is a violent capitalist country. Shootings, beatings, murders occur every day. It is historical fact, beginning with the war…

January 10, 2017