From Our Archives: Institutional Bigotry
The first eBook in our Hidden History series is available for purchase, and a second is on its way!Here's a taste of what you can expect from "Seneca Falls, Selma, and Stonewall," which offers riveting...
View ArticleHappy Birthday, Paul Robeson
Paul Robeson was born 115 years ago today. For me, the mere mention of Robeson's name brings to mind a summer Saturday way back in 1949. On the same block as my apartment building in Brighton Beach,...
View ArticleStates should not curb health care for women
Every woman, no matter what her zip code is, should have access to affordable, quality health care. It seems like a simple enough proposition, but for far too many women, it is far from true -- and for...
View ArticleSame sex marriage fight a civil-rights battle
On the issue of same sex marriage, the U.S. Supreme Court should follow the lead of the NAACP.No organization better understands the heinous burden of discriminatory legislation than the NAACP. It...
View ArticleAt Long Last—The Truth About U.S. Torture
After five years of Dick Cheney's insistence that "enhanced interrogation" saved "thousands of lives," after a multiplex blitz by the Hollywood film Zero Dark Thirty propagating CIA claims that torture...
View ArticleThink the IRS Was Bad? Try the Spying on Occupy Activists
With all the hullabaloo over the IRS's special scrutiny of Tea Party groups, a far worse case of political meddling and governmental overreach has been going on: The spying on leftwing activists in the...
View ArticleFrom Our Archives: Muzzling the Press
Way back in 1918, The Progressive published an essay entitled "Muzzling of the Press," criticizing the extraordinary new powers granted to the President under The Espionage Act of 1917.The law allowed...
View ArticleAppreciating Will Campbell, “Preacher to the Damned”
The Rev. Will Campbell died on Monday. Here's a profile of the civil rights activist and storyteller from Dec. 1982.Appreciating Will Campbell: From the ArchivesI stopped off in Nashville a while back...
View ArticleWhat We Want in Turkey
Chapulling is a newly coined word derived from the 2013 protests in Turkey. This word came into being after Prime Minister Erdogan's speech in which he used the word "çapulcu" -- the normal meaning of...
View ArticleACLU’s Suit Against the NSA
The American Civil Liberties Union just filed a lawsuit against the Obama Administration over the NSA's grabbing of the phone records of Verizon customers.The government's "mass call tracking" is not...
View ArticleA Shameful Supreme Court Ruling on Voting Rights
In its 5-4 decision along partisan lines, the conservative majority tossed out the Act's insistence that nine mostly Southern states and a few other cities and counties with a history of racial...
View ArticleHappy Stonewall Anniversary!
It has been a momentous week for gay and lesbian rights in America, with the Supreme Court's decisions striking down the Defense of Marriage Act and sending the proponents of California's anti-gay Prop...
View ArticleJudge Smacks Scott Walker Twice
Federal Judge William Conley dealt two blows to the Walker regime yesterday with the release of two orders. The judge issued a preliminary injunction prohibiting the Wisconsin Department of...
View ArticleWhy the Zimmerman Trial Made Me Ill
A friend asked me if I'd been keeping up with the George Zimmerman trial. My immediate answer was, "Not really. Watching it was really angering me." But when pressed, I had to admit I was avoiding the...
View ArticleZimmerman and the Hunting of Black Folks
I received the news when I was getting ready to eat.I was prepared, intellectually, for a not-guilty verdict. I was not ready in my gut.As a radical, I am quite aware of the injustices that regularly...
View ArticleWalker's DNR Pushes Tribe Out for Strip Mine
On Tuesday morning the Iron County Forest Committee voted unanimously to recommend that the Iron County Board pursue criminal and civil charges against the Lac Courte Oreilles Treaty Harvest and...
View ArticleCourt decision on stop and frisk welcome
I grew up in the Bronx, and I welcome the recent court decision striking down New York's stop-and-frisk policy.This policy discriminated against men of color and, in a blatantly un-American way,...
View ArticleThe Speech Jesse Wasn’t Allowed to Finish
Editor's Note: The Reverend Jesse Jackson was allowed to speak for a mere 2 minutes, 45 seconds, on Saturday at the March on Washington. Here is the full text of his prepared remarks."Reflections on 50...
View ArticleWatch Walker’s Cops Manhandle Peaceful Observer
Gov. Scott Walker's capitol police got way out of hand on Monday as they grabbed an observer, threw him on the ground, and jumped all over him.As you'll see in this video, courtesy of Jeremy Ryan, the...
View ArticleKnow Nothings Lose Anti-Shariah Law Campaign
The know nothings in the anti-Shariah law campaign in this country recently got their comeuppance in Oklahoma.U.S. District Judge Vicki Miles-LaGrange issued on August 15 an injunction against a...
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