activism

June 29, 2016 By Juan Lopez

The City Council voted to ban a coal train that would wind through Oakland neighborhoods, creating a health and safety hazard.

June 13, 2016 By C.J. Atkins

Around the globe, rainbow flags fly at half-mast. Orlando was not so much of a wake-up call, but rather a reminder. First we mourn, then we act.

June 13, 2016 By Special to People’s World

The civil rights activist, lawyer, and theologian, and an acknowledged lesbian, will soon lend her name to one of two new residential colleges.

June 7, 2016 By Norman Markowitz

In 1950, Harry Hay, longtime Communist and union activist, founded the Mattachine Society, one of America's first LGBTQ rights organizations.

June 2, 2016 By Earchiel Johnson And John Wojcik

A young African American political activist is trembling today at the thought of having to face as many as four years in prison.