Every time Black Americans have advanced, there has been a democratizing effect for everyone, and every time the powerful have decided to turn back the clock on democracy, they start by attacking the rights of Blacks. We see this today.
From slavery, to organizing the first Black union-the Brotherhood of the Sleeping Car Porters, and to their current workforce, Blacks continue to fight for a One Fair Wage.
To most people, I’m invisible. Just another nameless Black man blending into the urban background. People avoid making eye contact as they walk past me on the sidewalk.
A tribute to Dr. Martin Luther King Jr., a beacon of hope, a driving force behind the civil rights movement, for racial equality, and for his contributions to the Labor Movement.
Murdered in Memphis years ago, Dr. King’s legacy lives on today — in the efforts of all those continuing the fight he waged against systemic racism, militarism, and economic inequality.
A white supremacist walked into a Dollar Store in Jacksonville, FL, and killed three people. Speakers discuss the role Gov. DeSantis has played in creating the climate for such killings, and that all people must come together to stop the hate.
Protest in Enid, Oklahoma over electing Judd Blevins to represent them on the Enid City Commission. Blevins has been accused of being an Oklahoma organizer for a white nationalist group.
In Braxton, Mississippi on January 24, 2023 six white police officers raided a home and tortured, tasered, sexually abused two Black men, shooting one in the mouth. The six police just pled guilty to torture. The two men speak about their fight for justice.
Two Black women speak about the Supreme Court ruling on affirmative action. The women’s comments dispel some of the lies and myths about affirmative action, the affect it will have on African Americans and people of color, and the negative impact a lack of diversity will have on us all.
Mississippi’s Jim Crow-era voting law restrictions adopted in 1890 by white supremacists to prevent Black people convicted of certain crimes to vote will remain since the Supreme Court declined to hear an appeal. Supreme Court Justice Ketanji Brown Jackson recounted the law's history in a dissent.
Black homeless street artist Jordan Neely, 30, walking through a NYC subway car saying he was hungry and thirsty, was held in a choke hold until his death. Widespread protests finally resulted in manslaughter charges being brought against his perpetrator.
Mississippi’s history and current events are instructive—and even predictive—for the rest of the country, especially in relationship to how racism and conservatism ultimately deprives everyone.
Forest defenders refuse to let this murder of one of their own stop them from protesting building of largest militarized police training center for urban warfare in the country.
It must have been about 1988 when our young blond daughter Aviva had been chosen for the role of the Virgin Mary in the holiday pageant of San Jose, her day care school.
This statement from the Center on Race, Immigration, and Social Justice at Sacramento State deals with the implications of the racist remarks made in private by three Los Angeles City Council members.
Outrage is growing in Akron, Ohio, after police officers killed Jayland Walker, a 25-year-old Black man, on June 27 after what was supposed to be a stop for traffic and equipment violations. Walker suffered more than 60 gunshot wounds.
On May 28, Reverend Edward Pinkney and the Benton Harbor Community Water Council hosted "Occupy the PGA," protesting the corporate takeover of the predominantly...
As we celebrate Juneteenth 2022, it’s important to reflect on the connection between the struggle of Black Americans to secure their rights and freedom, and the struggle to protect and expand democracy in America today. The two go hand in hand.
Billionaires and corporate interests, bankroll recall of San Francisco’s District Attorney Chesa Boudin who prosecuted criminal acts such as wage theft, worked to reform the justice system and hold police accountable when they break the law.
When a group of moms found out that their children’s school would be permanently closed, they made a promise to each other: They would try everything in their power to keep Parker, a 96-year-old East Oakland school, operating.
LaTosha Brown and US Rep. Nikema Williams address voter suppression in Georgia and the urgency of using our vote to get the power to insure our communities are taken care of.
The killings in Buffalo were one more in a horrifying string of mass shootings, and these murders once again make clear that Americans must unite against white supremacy.
Joy Bunton, a public health activist, shares her testimony from a rally held by The People’s Response Network to COVID on April 24, 2022, at a COVID vaccination in Chicago’s Little Village.
It appears that the powerful and well-heeled forces of corporate America are once again targeting the Reverend Edward Pinkney, president of the grassroots Benton Harbor Community Water Council, for the “crime” of standing up for the poor, the elderly, and the children by providing people with safe drinking water.
Man is imprisoned for a petty larceny involving $1. His struggle inside against a racist system of incarceration lands him in solitary confinement for 22 years.
Filmmaker Ray Santisteban’s new documentary, the First Rainbow Coalition, tackles the question of what it takes to build trust and solidarity between oppressed groups in a country.
Last spring Freddie Gray died in Baltimore Police custody. Freddie Gray came from a part of Baltimore called Sandtown. Here one-third of the housing units ...
African American History Month 2016 finds society becoming more polarized around wealth and poverty as the economy continues to replace workers with automated production ...
Help get the People’s Tribune out to homeless organizations and places where the homeless gather!
Homelessness is a stark example of the degeneration of an...
Homelessness is a stark example of the degeneration of an economic system based on the private property of a billionaire owning class. Automation is replacing workers ...
Rev. Edward Pinkney, convicted without evidence of changing dates on petitions in a recall election of corporate-backed Mayor James Hightower, is filing a motion to be ...
Unable to further disregard the growing mass reaction to police violence, spreading poverty and deepening social crisis, the ruling class has taken the tactical...
HOUSTON—For almost a year, Martina Grifaldo and Monica Rodriguez, President and Vice President respectively of Alianza Mexicana, an organization formed by Mexican origin residents...
