African Americans – Page 17

Join People’s World: Back to Memphis and ahead to the future!

March 28, 2018 By Blake Skylar

Let People's World take you to Memphis not just to remember but to help start a renewed fight to achieve Dr. King’s dream.

“Facing the Rising Sun”: Book illuminates history of Afro-Asian solidarity

March 16, 2018 By Tony Pecinovsky

Historian Gerald Horne shows how U.S. expansionist policy boomeranged and drove Negroes, Japanese, and Filipinos together, laying the foundation for an Afro-Asian alliance against white supremacy.

The South can lead the nation to a ‘new politics’

December 19, 2017 By Jesse Jackson

The race-bait politics that have defined the Republican Party since Nixon’s “Southern strategy” in 1968 may well be reaching its end date.

Slaves of the tribe: The hidden history of the Freedmen

November 29, 2017 By Earchiel Johnson

In the southern U.S., slavery conferred a vast amount power and influence on slave owners. It was no different among the five indigenous nations.

Tackling white privilege: AFL-CIO targets racism and prison-industrial complex

October 24, 2017 By Chauncey K. Robinson

Said one Florida worker, “Dr. King didn’t give his life for all of us to sit on our ass and feel good.”