African Americans
Is the Trump economy actually that good for Black Americans?
February 26, 2020Unemployment may be down for many black Americans, and wages are up -- but the wealth gap remains.
Read moreCivil 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....
Read moreFormer 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.
Read more“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.
Read moreLawmaker: 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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