May 9 marks the 220th anniversary of this great abolitionist’s birth. This article was originally published in Workers World on…
My family lived in South Carolina before the Revolution. My great-grandfather and his kin wore gray. That flag offends me.…
Following the June 17 racist massacre in South Carolina, a groundswell of activists has pushed to eliminate the glorification of…
The first known celebration of the end of slavery in the U.S. came on June 19, 1865, when Union soldiers…
Confederate Army forces retreated from Richmond, Va., in early April 1865 in the face of advancing Union troops, many of…
The Equal Justice Initiative published a report entitled “Lynching in America: Confronting the Legacy of Racial Terror” on Feb. 10.…
The great struggle for justice by the African-American people of Ferguson, Mo., comes after a white cop there gunned down…
Last year the U.S. commemorated the 150th anniversary of President Abraham Lincoln’s signing of the Emancipation Proclamation, which gave enslaved…
Harriet Tubman was born into slavery in Maryland in 1820; her birth name was Araminta Harriet Ross. As a child,…
Part one At certain moments in history, the struggle of individuals to survive and organize against fascist attacks, police and…