African Americans – Page 103

Unions, passengers unite to save mass transit and jobs

March 30, 2010 By John Bachtell

Thousands of transit workers and passengers rallied at the Rainbow PUSH Coalition on March 27 to demand federal funding for public transit systems nationwide.

Tea party’s ugly reality: racism, sexism, homophobia

March 26, 2010 By Jarvis Tyner

The struggle for health care reform showed us what we are up against, and what we are fighting for.

Beware of the new racist counteroffensive

March 25, 2010 By Sam Webb

The election of Barack Obama has triggered a racist counteroffensive in much the same way as the North's victory in the Civil War spurred a counteroffensive by the former slaveholders and their allies.

Struggle requires long view, Jesse Jackson tells left gathering

March 24, 2010 By Libero Della Piana

A conversation with the Rev. Jesse Jackson before an overflow crowd opened this year's Left Forum conference at Pace University in lower Manhattan this weekend.

African American Communist, WW II seaman, dies at 107

March 3, 2010 By Tim Wheeler

Jacob Green, an African American seaman who braved Nazi U-boats while supplying the Soviet Union during World War II, and later served as chairman of the Communist Party of Maryland, died Feb. 19. He was 107.