Black History
‘We’re not going back’: N.Y. Black History event featuring Gerald Horne, Feb. 28
February 26, 2021New York’s anti-racist fighters for the 99% celebrating Black History Month this Sunday.
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Alphaeus Hunton: A life devoted to equality, liberation, and internationalism
February 26, 2021As an architect of the early struggle for African-American equality and Black liberation in Africa, Hunton was committed to exposing the links between Jim Crow and imperialism.
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Life and times of Claudia Jones: In her own words
February 25, 2021A letter written by the legendary Black woman leader to then-CPUSA National Chair William Z. Foster, on Dec. 6, 1955, the eve of her deportation.
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Harlem’s 1946 fight against South African starvation foreshadowed anti-apartheid struggle
February 24, 2021The fight to save Black South Africans from starvation in 1946 foreshadowed the major struggles against apartheid that would define the decades to come.
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From the People’s World archives: W.E.B. DuBois joins the Communist Party
February 23, 2021Editor’s Note: Dr. William E. Burghardt DuBois was born Feb. 23, 1868. Near the end of his life, in 1961, he applied for membership in the Communist Party USA. His letter, and the response from Gus...
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