Black History

Two Black workers who made history

February 6, 2009 By Tim Wheeler

BALTIMORE — 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.,...

What will your legacy be?

February 2, 2007 By Dr. Margaret Taylor Goss Burroughs

"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.

Black History reprint: Working-class roots of Bill Withers

June 30, 2006 By World Combined Sources

You 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...

Black history and Marxist education

February 22, 2002 By Dee Miles

The 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...

Remembering Carter G. Woodson

February 1, 2002 By Libero Della Piana

Carter G. Woodson established Negro History Week in 1926 and chose to celebrate it the second week of February because it marks the birthdays of Frederick Douglass and Abraham Lincoln, two men who left an indelible...