Black History
CPUSA in the 1960s: an interview with Jarvis Tyner
February 23, 2010Jarvis Tyner is the executive vice chair of the Communist Party USA and the chair of the party's African American Equality Commission. He joined the CPUSA in the early sixties, just as the Civil Rights Movement...
Read moreTwo Black workers who made history
February 6, 2009BALTIMORE — Helen Evans was turning the pages of an album of photos of her father, Joseph P. Henderson, when her eye fell on a picture of him as a Laborers union organizer in Washington, D.C.,...
Read moreWhat will your legacy be?
February 2, 2007"What Will Your Legacy Be?" Dr. Margaret T.G. Burroughs once wrote and asked in a 2007 epic poem. The internationally renowned Burroughs died November 21, 2010, and scholars and activists celebrate her long-lasting legacy.
Read moreBlack History reprint: Working-class roots of Bill Withers
June 30, 2006You might be a Bill Withers fan without realizing it. If you ever grooved to Will Smith’s “Just the Two of Us,” sang along with “Lean On Me” or thought to yourself, “Ain’t No Sunshine” when...
Read moreBlack history and Marxist education
February 22, 2002The relationship between Black history and Marxist education is quite profound. Marx elaborated quite extensively on the connection between the slave trade and slavery to the primitive accumulation of capital. Marxists provide the most credible explanations...
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