Author: Stephen Millies

The long shadow of the Chicago race riot, Part 4 Despite the race riot and segregated housing, Chicago’s Black population more than doubled in the 1920s and reached 233,903 by 1930. Even in 1940, during […]

Activists in New York City were able to hear a firsthand account about how socialist Cuba is surviving the U.S. blockade from Dr. Jourdy James Heredia on Oct. 17. The Cuban economist spoke at the […]

Oct. 17 — People chanted “¡Cuba sí, bloqueo no!” as activists stood on the steps of New York City’s City Hall today to denounce the U.S. blockade of Cuba. A news conference was held to […]

New York — Hundreds of people filled the auditorium of Manhattan’s Washington Irving campus near Union Square on Oct. 16 to fight for housing for all. After years of skyrocketing rents, the New York state […]

The long shadow of the Chicago race riot, Part 3 Up to the 1920s, Chicago was the center of the labor movement in the United States. It was the heart and soul of the eight-hour-day […]

New York — Hundreds of people gathered in Corona Plaza in the Borough of Queens on Oct. 13 to demand that Ecuador’s president, Lenin Moreno, resign. Ecuadorian immigrants and their supporters hailed the mass uprising in […]

A fundamental change in the composition of the U.S. workforce was the Great Migration of African Americans from the South to Northern cities. With the outbreak of World War I, factory owners lost Eastern and […]