African-American history

Shirley Chisholm: Unbought & Unbossed

January 28, 2005 By Special to People’s World

1972 was an extraordinary year. Richard Nixon was president, running for his second, ill-fated term. The voting age had just changed from 21 to 18, and millions of new voters were expected at the polls. The...

Hattie Lumpkin, Mother and Fighter for Socialism

July 15, 2004 By Beatrice Lumpkin

The women who marched to save women’s lives in Washington, DC this month were standing on the shoulders of giants. Hattie Lumpkin or “Ma” was one of those giants.

The legacy of Benjamin J. Davis

September 5, 2003 By Jarvis Tyner

**See below: “The making of a Communist” by Benjamin J. Davis ** This is the centennial of the birth of a former New York City Council member from Harlem and a remarkable African-American leader: Benjamin J....

Memphis 1968: We remember

April 3, 2003 By Fred Gaboury

An assassin’s bullet felled the Rev. Martin Luther King, Jr. on April 4, 1968. King had come to Memphis to support a strike by the city’s sanitation workers. (See related story below)