equality
At IAM2018, King’s legacy is civil rights and labor action
April 2, 2018“This work is important not just in the history of the civil rights movement, but in the world,” declared Mayor Jim Strickland in an opening remark.
Read moreI AM 2018 conference opens in Memphis 50 years after King
April 2, 2018Join People's World here in Memphis where people are not just remembering the dream of Dr. King but renewing the fight to achieve that dream.
Read moreCapitalism breeds and feeds Black oppression
February 9, 2018"The struggle of the Negro people for integration in the economic, political, and social affairs of the nation on the basis of full equality with all other Americans is a struggle to enlarge democracy in the...
Read moreDanica Roem: Shoe leather and local issues key to progressive wins
December 8, 2017Her message, which she carried with her reporter’s notebooks from house to house, including on the rainy Saturday night before the election, was relentlessly local and focused.
Read moreTop union leader says hitting the streets will save democracy
November 8, 2017NEA Vice President Becky Pringle, is challenging the nation’s progressives to hit the streets for democracy. She opened her address to Common Cause’s Blueprint for a Great Democracy conference by quoting Dr. Martin Luther King Jr....
Read more