Civil Rights movement – Page 3

Voting Rights Act of 1965 may have to be passed again

February 19, 2019 By Mark Gruenberg

The Voting Rights Act produced an enormous change for both African-Americans and U.S. politics.

Amazing Aretha: L.A.’s Black community and others gracefully honor Queen of Soul

September 10, 2018 By Ed Rampell

LOS ANGELES—Hollywood is known around the world as a “company town” for the motion picture industry and television, but Los Angeles is also a music mecca. In January 1972, Aretha Franklin recorded the live album “Amazing...

Bayard Rustin: The gay union organizer who helped MLK change the world

April 5, 2018 By Shellea Allen And Tim Schlittner

As America observes the anniversary of Dr. Martin Luther King Jr.'s assassination, there is one name you may not hear: Bayard Rustin.

Honoring Black History Month: “The Children’s March” documentary film

February 27, 2018 By Gabe Falsetta

Dateline Birmingham, Alabama, May 2nd, 1963. One of the most racist and unequal cities in America is witness to an extraordinary show of boldness.

The New York Times cannot dispel the class struggle

May 12, 2017 By Rick Nagin

As someone who joined the Party much later, in 1970, I beg to differ. I joined the party after five years of activism against the war in Vietnam. Vietnamese communists, were a critical part of the...