Black history month – Page 9

NY Times: Turning truth on its head — The Scottsboro case

February 7, 2013 By Tim Wheeler

This week a bipartisan group of Alabama state lawmakers introduced a bill to exonerate the victims of a racist frame-up.

Today in labor history: Bob Marley, champion of the oppressed, is born

February 6, 2013 By Special to People’s World

Bob Marley, who introduced reggae to the world and gave voice to the passion of oppressed people, was born 68 years ago in the Jamaican village of Nine Mile.

Today in labor history: Radical Reconstruction and 40 acres and a mule

February 5, 2013 By Special to People’s World

In 1866, Thaddeus Stevens offered an amendment to a bill requiring 40 acre plots be parceled out to former slaves from both confiscated and public land in the former slave South.

Today in history: Civil rights activist Rosa Parks born 100 years ago

February 4, 2013 By Special to People’s World

In honor of the centennial of the birth of Rosa Parks, we are rerunning the following People's World article, "Rosa Parks: courageous fighter for justice, " by Debbie Bell.

Today in labor history: Poet Langston Hughes was born

February 1, 2013 By Special to People’s World

On this date in 1902 poet ,activist, and playwright Langston Hughes was born in Joplin Missouri. Considered to be the poet laureate of the African American people, Hughes came to prominence during the Harlem Renaissance. One...