civil rights
Today in women’s history: Long live Fannie Lou Hamer
March 14, 2013On this day in 1977 Mississippi civil rights activist Fannie Lou Hamer passed away.
Read moreGood news for Alabama: Angela Davis to be honored
March 11, 2013"The south does have a rich tradition of progressives. It might be thin, but it's strong."
Read moreToday in women’s history: Trial of Ethel and Julius Rosenberg begins
March 6, 2013The frame up of the Rosenbergs, fueled by Cold War, anti-communism and anti-Semitism, remains a terrible blot on our nation's history - a gross miscarriage of justice.
Read moreToday in women’s history: Mary McLeod Bethune honored
March 5, 2013On March 5, in 1985 the U.S. Postal Service issued a commemorative honoring Mary McLeod Bethune.
Read moreBlack history exhibit features Maryland protests of 1940s-50s
February 27, 2013Struggles against segregation and for militant trade unionism in Maryland were the subject of a Feb. 23 Black History Month program sponsored by the Baltimore Marxist Labor Forum.
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