civil rights
“Step closer to equality”: Texas judge overthrows gay marriage ban
February 28, 2014In his ruling, the San Antonio judge wrote that the same-sex marriage ban "violates plaintiffs' equal protection and due process rights under the Fourteenth Amendment to the United States Constitution."
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“Revolutionary” mayor, Chokwe Lumumba of Jackson, Miss., dies
February 27, 2014Jackson Mayor Chokwe Lumumba, who has been described as "America's most revolutionary mayor," died suddenly Feb. 25 at the age of 66.
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Today in black history: Civil rights activist Jimmie Lee Jackson dies, becomes catalyst for Selma march
February 26, 2014Twenty-six year old civil rights protester Jimmie Lee Jackson died this day, Feb. 26, 1965, from gunshot wounds inflicted by Alabama State Trooper after marching in a peaceful protest.
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Today in black history: First black U.S. Senator sworn in
February 25, 2014On February 25, 1870, Hiram R. Revels of Mississippi was sworn in as the first black U.S. Senator.
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Communists and the long struggle for African American equality
February 25, 2014Throughout its 95-year history the Communist Party USA has always been in the vanguard of the struggle for African American equality.
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