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Great grandfather who helped end slavery and save a nation remembered

May 7, 2014 By Tim Wheeler

An unpublished manuscript "The Diary of Francis Marion Wheeler 1842-1899" has been gathering dust on a bookshelf in our house for many years. Once I picked it up, I could not put it down.

Alabama to pay $580,000 because of unconstitutional anti-immigrant law

May 6, 2014 By Special to People’s World

"This lawsuit put a swift end to a cruel, discriminatory, and unlawful effort to drive immigrant families out of their homes."

National forum on police crimes to be held in Chicago

April 30, 2014 By Evlynn Wier

The forum is devised to promote a "renewed effort to build a multi-racial, multi-national movement" against police crimes, government surveillance, mass incarceration, and more.

Equality victory, as India recognizes transgender rights

April 16, 2014 By Morning Star

Landmark Supreme Court ruling allows people to identify themselves outside the traditional gender binary

Socialist and journalist Carl Bloice dies at 75

April 15, 2014 By John Case

Carl Bloice focused his daily and weekly and monthly journalistic production on economics, on the struggle for equality, on youth, especially African American, Latino and Asian youth in his hometown, on internationalism.