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Staff at civil rights group Southern Poverty Law Center unionizes

December 18, 2019 By PAI

The staff decided to unionize after months of turmoil at the SPLC, the nation’s top tracker of hate groups.

Voting matters: How are your Congressmembers doing? Ask the NAACP

July 15, 2019 By Eric A. Gordon

Is there really no difference between the two capitalist parties, as some on the left like to claim? The NAACP might argue otherwise.

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.

In defense of human rights and Angela Davis

January 10, 2019 By Chauncey K. Robinson

International solidarity strengthens movements of the oppressed everywhere. Davis recognizes this, and the Birmingham Civil Rights Institute should too.

EPA slams door to justice on historic Black community

December 13, 2018 By Special to People’s World

The EPA greenlights the landfill to continue to operate without sufficient public-health and environmental protections in the middle of a historic Black community.