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March on Washington – right place to be in 1963 and 2013

August 21, 2013 By April Smith

It's 50 years later but we still have to march. We're marching for Trayvon. We're marching for voting rights - still!

Today in labor history: Denmark Vesey arrested for slave revolt

June 18, 2013 By Special to People’s World

On June 18, 1822, slave revolt leaders Denmark Vesey, Peter Poyas and others were arrested in South Carolina. Vesey was hailed as a hero by abolitionists during the Civil War, including Frederick Douglass.

Today in women’s history: Anne Hutchinson banned from Bay Colony

March 22, 2013 By John Wojcik

Not enough is said today about the role of women in formulating the basic beliefs we have about the nature of freedom itself.

Today in women’s history: Long live Fannie Lou Hamer

March 14, 2013 By Special to People’s World

On this day in 1977 Mississippi civil rights activist Fannie Lou Hamer passed away.

Federal IDs for all workers: A trial balloon?

February 28, 2013 By Thomas Riggins

The Senate is considering a bipartisan plan to require all working people in the U.S. to carry a biometric ID card with their finger prints or other markers.