African-American history
Has America come any closer to Dr. King’s dream?
April 6, 2021Last weekend marked the 53d anniversary of Dr. Martin Luther King’s assassination. Over half a century. Has America come any closer to his dream?
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‘We’re not going back’: N.Y. Black History event featuring Gerald Horne, Feb. 28
February 26, 2021New York’s anti-racist fighters for the 99% celebrating Black History Month this Sunday.
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Civil Rights Movement memories: Marching from Selma to Montgomery in 1965
February 7, 2020The experiences of witnessing Jim Crow in Houston in the mid-fifties, soon after migrating with my parents and sister from Buenos Aires, were forever implanted in my conscience. Doing whatever necessary to help eradicate the U.S....
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Former Detroit Daily World reporter on the legacy of Rep. John Conyers
October 28, 2019There seemed to be no such thing as a progressive cause that didn't have his name on it: from Medicare for All to the Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr., holiday.
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Capitalism breeds and feeds Black oppression
February 9, 2018"The struggle of the Negro people for integration in the economic, political, and social affairs of the nation on the basis of full equality with all other Americans is a struggle to enlarge democracy in the...
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