African Americans
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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“Stand up for this democracy”: My congressman, Elijah Cummings
October 18, 2019I covered Cummings as a correspondent for People's Weekly World in Washington, D.C., and interviewed him more than once.
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Lawmaker: African-Americans battle backlash to challenges to power structure
September 17, 2019“Racism is dangerous, but race ignorance is dangerous, too.”
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Rep. Wilson: African Americans’ issues get little attention in presidential race
September 12, 2019The message at this year's Congressional Black Caucus conference: Register every African American possible to vote and get them to the polls next year.
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