In the U.S.

‘Last hired first fired’ still applies The latest U.S. unemployment figures confirm that Black workers always have it twice as bad as white workers. While the seasonally adjusted jobless rate for white people in January […]

🗓️ Saturday Feb 28 🕒 3 PM 📍 McKeldin Plaza The Baltimore People’s Power Assembly strongly condemns the US and Israel’s brutal strikes across Iran. Air strikes on civilian and military targets come after weeks […]

A coalition of grassroots organizations is sponsoring emergency protests in scores of cities around the country on Saturday to oppose the Trump administration’s attack against Iran. A full list of demonstrations will be updated on […]

Sixty-one years ago, the wealthy and powerful had Malcolm X — also known as El-Hajj Malik el-Shabazz — murdered. On the 61st anniversary of his 1965 assassination, activists gathered on Feb. 21 in Brooklyn’s Bedford-Stuyvesant […]

Carter G. Woodson (1875-1950): Father of Black History “Those who have no record of what their forebears have accomplished lose the inspiration which comes from the teaching of biography and history.” – Carter G. Woodson […]

By Sam Marcy February 2, 1984 Editor’s Note: Civil Rights leader, two-time presidential candidate, and founder of the Rainbow-PUSH Coalition, the Reverend Jesse Jackson, died on Feb. 17, 2026, at the age of 84. In […]

New Orleans, Feb.18 – “F*** ICE” might as well have been an unofficial motto of Mardi Gras 2026 — graffitied around the city (along with “ABOLISH ICE”), printed on signs, and even stitched into the […]