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The war in Newark, 1967

February 27, 2013 By Tim Wheeler

I sat for two hours copying word for word the reports of the gunshot wounds that ultimately killed 26 people in Newark. Most of them died from gunshot wounds in the back.

Labor mobilizes to save Voting Rights Act

February 27, 2013 By John Wojcik

Voting rights were high on the agenda of the AFL-CIO's executive council meeting February 27 as the Supreme Court heard a challenge to Section 5 of the landmark 1965 Voting Rights Act.

Remember Trayvon Martin, with video

February 26, 2013 By Rashad Robinson

One year ago, George Zimmerman shot and killed 17 year-old Trayvon Martin because he thought the young man looked suspicious. And one year later, what happened that night still outrages us.

Ghosts of Memphis’ slave past: Fallout over renaming Confederate parks

February 25, 2013 By Glenn Ramsey

The effort to rename Nathan Bedford Forrest Park, a memorial to the Confederate General, pre-war slave trader, and post-war founder of the Ku Klux Klan, recently began.

Today in black history: Harold Washington won the mayoral primary in Chicago

February 22, 2013 By Special to People’s World

In 1983, Washington won the Democratic mayoral primary and later was elected the first African-American Mayor of Chicago, serving from 1983 until his death in 1987.