African Americans

What will your legacy be?

February 2, 2007 By Dr. Margaret Taylor Goss Burroughs

"What Will Your Legacy Be?" Dr. Margaret T.G. Burroughs once wrote and asked in a 2007 epic poem. The internationally renowned Burroughs died November 21, 2010, and scholars and activists celebrate her long-lasting legacy.

Taking back the land in Miami

December 1, 2006 By Annie Fox And Ray Phillips

MIAMI, Fla. — “We are housing for the people, by the people,” proclaims a sign outside the kitchen at Umoja Village in Liberty City, Miami. What is Umoja Village and how did it come to be...

Battered by Katrina, Gulf Coast workers stand up

November 18, 2005 By Teresa Albano

NEW ORLEANS — Gail Andrews, a quiet, unassuming African American woman from New Orleans East, found her mother two weeks after Hurricane Katrina. Six weeks later, she lost her again. This time forever. At age 68,...

B.D. Amis, Black Communist and labor leader

November 19, 2004 By Barry D. Amis

While little known today, during the late 1920s and the 1930s, B.D. Amis was one of a small cadre of African Americans leading the fight for workers’ rights and racial justice. Urbane in demeanor and a...

Ishmael Flory, fighter for equality, 96

February 20, 2004

Ishmael Flory, veteran trade union organizer, activist in the African American freedom movement, and a longtime leader of the Communist Party in Illinois, died Feb. 4 in Chicago following a long illness. He was 96. Flory...