civil rights

Rev. Barber rouses crowd at Labor’s Martin Luther King conference

January 14, 2018 By Mark Gruenberg

Plans underway for a new Poor Peoples Campaign in cities across America

SPLC demanda al Gobierno Federal por redadas inconstitucionales de ICE

December 15, 2017 By Southern Poverty Law Center (SPLC)

La demanda judicial detalla cómo los agentes de ICE violaron los derechos civiles de familias en Atlanta, Georgia, al entrar en sus hogares de manera fraudulenta.

The Bolshevik Revolution: Unacknowledged inspiration of liberation movements everywhere

November 3, 2017 By Lowell B. Denny, III

While our gaze is fixed on the 1960s as a time of radical resistance, we must redirect our attention to the initial decades after 1917 as the more radical epoch.

Black unionists in St. Louis lead battles for worker and civil rights

October 24, 2017 By Joelle Fishman

"Stand up for health care! Stand up for union jobs! Stand up for living wages! Stand up for civil rights! Stand up St. Louis!"

This week in history: Little Rock Central High School integrated

September 25, 2017 By Special to People’s World

A group of nine African-American students, enrolled in Little Rock Central High School in 1957. Their enrollment was initially prevented by Arkansas Gov. Orval Faubus. Pres. Dwight D. Eisenhower intervened with federal troops to accompany the...