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On February 18, 1865, Charleston, South Carolina — the spiritual capital of the Confederacy and the cradle of secession — surrendered to Union troops. The first federal unit to enter the conquered city was the Twenty-First United States Colored Infantry Regiment . Men, some of whom who had not (…)
Police Violence, Domestic Warfare, and the Genesis of a National Movement Against State-Sanctioned Violence.
Each generation has a moment when its members share an instance of collective experience that is forever etched into their memory. For the Civil Rights and Black Power generation, it (…)
Collective Courage: A History of African American Cooperative Economic Thought and Practice. By Jessica Gordon Nembhard. Penn State University Press, 2014, 328 pages, $39.95 paperback.
DETROIT HAS BECOME something of a national symbol of the growing trends of economic inequality, and (…)
The US and Cuba have finally resumed diplomatic relations. But what will the restored ties mean for immigration policy?
Earlier this month, President Obama met with Cuban President Raul Castro at the Summit of the Americas, the first time in more than five decades that leaders of the two (…)
February 21 marked the 50th anniversary of the assassination of Malcolm X, one of the greatest leaders of the Black liberation movement of the 1960s.
Lenin once wrote, “During the lifetime of great revolutionaries, the oppressing classes constantly hounded them, received their theories with (…)
“If, in 2014, we’re still making ‘white savior movies’ then it’s just lazy and unfortunate. We’ve grown up as a country and cinema should be able to reflect what’s true. And what’s true is that black people are the center of their own lives and should tell their own stories from their own (…)
Malcolm X was a unique person. His transition from Malcolm Little to the internationally renowned Malcolm X—with the development in his final years of uncompromising opposition to all forms of national/international oppression, exploitation, and discrimination—is truly exceptional.
Malcolm (…)
Frank Fried, one of the most remarkable revolutionary socialists in the United States during the second half of the 20th century, passed away on January 13, 2015 in Alameda, California at the age of 87. He is survived by his wife of 27 years, the novelist Alice Wilson-Fried.
Frank was (…)
Review of This Nonviolent Stuff’ll Get You Killed. How Guns Made the Civil Rights Movement Possible. Charles E. Cobb Jr.. Basic Books, 2014, 294 pages, $28 hardcover.
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CHARLES COBB’S PROVOCATIVE title poses a serious question: did armed Blacks play an essential role in (…)
Radical historian Staughton Lynd on the lessons we can draw from the demise of the original IWW.
The Wobblies are back. Many young radicals find the Industrial Workers of the World (IWW) the most congenial available platform on which to stand in trying to change the world. This effort has (…)
The radical teamsters of Minneapolis showed what democratic unionism looks like
It is no secret that the American worker is in trouble. Jobs are increasingly precarious, and real wages have been trending downward for decades. Unions, once strong and aggressive, now often seem to be in (…)
Discussions on how to break working people from the hold of the Democratic Party have acquired a new immediacy as a result of the recent electoral victories of independent working-class candidates in Seattle, Washington, and Lorraine, Ohio, as well as the campaign for Chicago union leader Karen (…)
The year 1934 saw three historic strikes that transformed U.S. labor. It was the year when the American working class clenched its fists and rose from the depths and humiliation of the Great Depression. Within just two years would come the great Flint Sitdown and the massive strike wave that (…)
“THE WAY TO stop discrimination on the basis of race is to speak openly and candidly on the subject of race, and to apply the Constitution with eyes open to the unfortunate effects of centuries of racial discrimination.” — Justice Sonia Sotomayor, from her dissenting opinion after the Supreme (…)
Just two weeks after the August 28, 1963 March on Washington, four girls aged 11-14 — Addie Mae Collins, Cynthia Wesley, Carole Robertson and Denise McNair — died in the bombing of the 16th Street Baptist Church in Birmingham, Alabama
The year 1963 was marked by assassinations and at least (…)
Seeger is famous, of course, for making “We Shall Overcome” a civil and human rights anthem. The story of where he found that song is told below by historian Christopher Phelps. It is excerpted, by permission, from Christopher Phelps, “Lefts Old and New: Sixties Radicalism, Now and Then,” in A (…)
A Freedom Budget for All Americans Recapturing the Promise of the Civil Rights Movement in the Struggle for Economic Justice Today By Paul LeBlanc and Michael D. Yates New York: Monthly Review Press, 2013, 245 pages, $16.95 paperback.
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This new book, A Freedom Budget for All (…)
“So it’s time in 1964 to wake up. And when you see them coming up with that kind of conspiracy, let them know your eyes are open. And let them know you — something else that’s wide open too. It’s got to be the ballot or the bullet. The ballot or the bullet. If you’re afraid to use an expression (…)
Three years after the March on Washington for Jobs and Freedom, a number of its core organizers projected a new stage of the struggle for equality — expanding and deepening it, creating the economic and social foundations needed to realize Martin Luther King’s dream. Their program, “A Freedom (…)
August 6 marks sixty-eight years since the United States committed what is arguably the single gravest act of terrorism that the world has ever known.
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August 6 marks sixty-eight years since the United States committed what is arguably the single gravest act of terrorism that the (…)
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