Dave Moore became a leader in the union organizing at the Ford Motor Company in Dearborn, Michigan in the 1930s and was elected to leadership positions in UAW Local 600 in the late 1940s.

Five young people in the bloom of life, in their teens and early twenties, just beginning to see life, were lying dead on Miller Road. To this day, no charges have been brought against Ford Motor Company or anyone else.

As Congress returns to the subject of immigration, the Bush administration has stepped up arrests and deportations of immigrants.

It is my contention that the perpetuation of non-class divisions based on race and sex is the key mechanism sustaining capitalist relations of production, and therefore the key mechanism for upholding class society.

February as Black History month has now become part of national consciousness, which in itself is a great leap forward from the days when African American history was taught usually as one course in a small number of universities with few African American students, in contrast with historically Black colleges and universities.

George Springer came to the United States as an immigrant from Panama. He came here to attend college in New Britain, Connecticut. In 1951 he wrote an insightful paper about the labor and anti-racist equality struggles of the Panamanian working class.

Claudia Jones was born Claudia Cumberbatch in 1915 in Port-of-Spain, Trinidad, a British colony. Though her family was well off, economic crisis after World War I forced the family to migrate to the Harlem section of New York City in 1922 to seek work. Jones' mother, Sybil, worked in the garment industry to support the family, but died in 1927.

The fight against racism is even more urgent today. There is nothing more important on the agenda of the progressive forces worldwide than the fight to end the scourge of racism from our planet. By racism I’m not just talking about a set of bad ideas and beliefs.

By 1951, 23 NLC chapters were established in major cities across the country. The NLC launched a national campaign to have a "model FEPC clause" inserted into union contracts. The FEPC clause took its name from the Fair Employment Practices Committee established during the Roosevelt presidency.

When I was very young I remember my mother taking me downtown to with her so she could do her shopping. Of course that was back in the days when Buffalo had a real downtown, there were no vacant buildings, all the shops and department stores were open.

Any attempt to write on African American freedom in the United States involves curious contradictions. One could scarcely imagine greater social change than between the years 1853 and 1953.

Civil rights groups see a chance to make important gains during the next two years with the new dynamics in Congress. In a letter earlier this month to members of the House and Senate, the Leadership Conference on Civil Rights outlined 16 key issues that the 200-member civil and human rights coalition plans to win.

The wheels of justice, so says the old adage, turn slowly. No one can better attest to the truth of that statement than Thomas Moore, 63, who has been in determined pursuit of justice for the kidnapping and murder of his brother Charles Eddie Moore back in 1964.

All people living in the U.S. without legal immigration status can apply for permanent residence status upon passage of this bill.   From the date of passage of the bill forward, all immigrants living in the U.S. for at least five years shall be eligible to apply for permanent residence status.

Almost a century after the end of the civil war, a new civil rights movement emerged which culminated in the passage of the US Civil Rights Act of 1964. This was not achieved through the largesse of then President Lyndon B. Johnson. It was achieved as a result of a broad and engaged struggle, one that united people across racial, ethnic, religious and class lines.

Recently, however, I have been reminded that although gains have certainly been made in curbing racism and other forms of hate and intolerance, these diseases are still with us. And if you've read the news over the past several months, quite a bit of it is coming from Virginia.

Development projects anywhere in the world often have a high human cost. In Colombia, the price is often measured in human lives and blood.

Dr. King’s views on militarism and war are especially important now when permanent war seems to be the only rhetoric coming from our national leaders. We can look into his words and deeds for guidance to recovering a saner and peaceful approach to equalizing our relationships with each other, other countries and groups of people around the world.

With the exception of right-wing nationalists (and there is no shortage of this species around here) most of the political groups in the country accept, in principle, that the Palestinian Arabs in Israel ought to enjoy full rights as citizens. Of course, in reality, this principle is violated daily in every walk of life.

Organized labor’s successful mobilization that retook Congress in 2006 is the first step in a multi-year plan to restore primacy of progressive political forces and ideas in the U.S., AFL-CIO Political Director Karen Ackerman says.

Immigrant workers and their supporters protest outside the Woodfin Suites hotel in Emeryville, the morining after hotel managers fired 20 workers.