Black History Month

From Reconstruction to Malcolm X:  Black history is about struggleFrom Reconstruction to Malcolm X:  Black history is about struggle

From Reconstruction to Malcolm X: Black history is about struggle

This article, originally entitled “Taking back Black history from the 1%,” is based on a speech given by Monica Moorehead,…

February 8, 2024
Black labor: From chattel slavery to wage slavery – Part 1Black labor: From chattel slavery to wage slavery – Part 1

Black labor: From chattel slavery to wage slavery – Part 1

The following is excerpted from Chapter 2 of  Sam Marcy’s “High Tech, Low Pay: A Marxist analysis of the changing…

February 7, 2024
Black labor: From chattel slavery to wage slavery – Part 2Black labor: From chattel slavery to wage slavery – Part 2

Black labor: From chattel slavery to wage slavery – Part 2

The following is excerpted from Chapter 2 of Sam Marcy’s “High Tech, Low Pay: A Marxist analysis of the changing…

February 7, 2024
What is Black excellence? – letter to the editorsWhat is Black excellence? – letter to the editors

What is Black excellence? – letter to the editors

Black History Month is a time when Black excellence is celebrated, a time when accomplishments by Black Americans of note…

February 25, 2022
Taking back Black history from the 1%Taking back Black history from the 1%

Taking back Black history from the 1%

Karl Marx said in 1845: “The ideas of the ruling class are in every epoch the ruling ideas, i.e., the…

March 14, 2014
Baltimore SCLC leader announces May 11 march on D.C.Baltimore SCLC leader announces May 11 march on D.C.

Baltimore SCLC leader announces May 11 march on D.C.

Excerpts from a talk by the Rev. Cortly “C.D.” Witherspoon, president of the Baltimore area Southern Christian Leadership Conference and…

March 12, 2013
Harriet Tubman and her role in the struggle against slaveryHarriet Tubman and her role in the struggle against slavery

Harriet Tubman and her role in the struggle against slavery

Excerpts taken from a talk given by Brenda Stokely, Million Worker March Movement leader and a representative of the International…

March 11, 2013