African Americans
Beware of the new racist counteroffensive
March 25, 2010The 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.
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Struggle requires long view, Jesse Jackson tells left gathering
March 24, 2010A 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.
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African American Communist, WW II seaman, dies at 107
March 3, 2010Jacob 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.
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Does Detroit have a future?
March 1, 2010Last month I visited Detroit and once again saw first-hand what can only be described as an economic and human catastrophe.
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Black history, labor history intertwined in Detroit
March 1, 2010Between the two World Wars, the groundwork was laid in Detroit's Black community that culminated in the organizing of the world's most powerful corporation.
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