Culture
Paul Robeson: The tallest tree in our forest
April 7, 2006Paul Robeson’s legacy in the 21st century OAKLAND — Fifty years ago, when legendary civil rights and peace leader, athlete, and artist Paul Robeson was being hounded by McCarthy-era witch-hunting committees, deprived of his livelihood and...
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Einstein in the hood. BOOK REVIEW: Einstein on Race and Racism.
February 24, 2006Princeton was a southern town in northern gown. Segregation of Blacks from whites was widely practiced and enforced. Einstein, a German-born Jew and naturalized American citizen, was acutely aware of what racism is and does, and...
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America the Beautiful a call to struggle
September 17, 2004In 1893, a 34-year-old English teacher from Massachusetts rode a mule to the top of Pike’s Peak in Colorado. As she stood at the summit, she beheld the vista of the Great Plains spreading out to...
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Understanding what went wrong in the USSR
August 13, 2004Socialism Betrayed: Behind the Collapse of the Soviet Union By Roger Keeran & Thomas Kenny International Publishers, 2004 Softcover, 230 pp., $14.00 The demise of the Soviet Union was a watershed event in human history....
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Review: ‘Exiles from a Future Time’
November 14, 2002CP writers and those in the Party’s orbit made a profoundly important contribution to twentieth-century U.S. culture.
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