Racism and Self-Determination

After emancipation, ‘Sick from freedom’

Last year the U.S. commemorated the 150th anniversary of President Abraham Lincoln’s signing of the Emancipation Proclamation, which gave enslaved…

February 15, 2014

North Carolina burning

They call it Moral Mondays and in North Carolina this means a movement of civil disobedience led by the Rev.…

February 15, 2014

Fifty years after ‘war on poverty,’ class divisions widen

Some five decades after President Lyndon B. Johnson declared a “War on Poverty,” class divisions inside the U.S. are widening.…

February 14, 2014

Demand justice for Central Park 5

New York – Supporters packed the steps of City Hall on Feb. 4 to demand that New York City Mayor…

February 14, 2014

MASSIVE MARCH

Upsurge in South sets People’s Agenda By Eva P. and Ben C. Raleigh, N.C. -- The appeal went out: “Just…

February 12, 2014

Fannie Lou Hamer remains a symbol 50 years after Freedom Summer

More than 1,000 student volunteers, along with rank-and-file workers and professionals from the northern and western cities of the U.S.,…

February 7, 2014

New York community activists tell mayor: Bratton must go!

Activists, community members and families of police brutality victims held a news conference at City Hall on Feb. 4 to…

February 6, 2014

Philadelphia police assault of Black youth sparks outrage

Philadelphia -- Before her students left Mathematics, Civics and Sciences Charter School to play in a basketball game, Victoria Joyner…

February 1, 2014

Moral Mondays: the emergence and dynamics of a growing mass human rights movement

Introduction The Moral Mondays campaign in North Carolina that is mobilizing thousands to speak out against the legislative attacks on…

January 30, 2014

MLK honored in Milwaukee

Milwaukee — St. Francis of Assisi Church in Milwaukee was packed Jan. 20 for the Justice Coalition's 13th annual MLK…

January 29, 2014