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Talking about the Green Book
Back in the day, black entertainers could not stay in hotels when they came to Chicago to perform.ย At our family home at 9201 S. Perry, once Dick Gregory rang the bell.ย WOW!!ย I happened to ...
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Border Radios
With fears of an invasion which would cause disease outbreaks, school over-crowding, crime and wage deflation, the borders of California were sealed in 1936. In the preceding years of Depression California had already absorbed hundreds of ...
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Unnamed Harlem resident finds old letter
In the dusty book shelves of an unnamed Harlem residentโs basement we uncovered this letter written in 1912 from the man later known as Ho Chi Minh to his father back home. Dearest father, I wanted ...
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Letter from Garibaldi to Lincoln
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On this date, 155 years ago (August 6, 1863): โIn the midst of your titanic struggle, permit me, as another among the free children of Columbus, to send you a word of greeting and admiration for ...
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Marx and Engels on Civil War: New Collection
Review by Marcelo Badarรณ Mattos The Civil War in the United States, by Karl Marx and Friedrich Engels. Edited by Andrew Zimmerman. New York: International Publishers, 2016. Paper, $14.00. Pp. 256. This book is the second ...
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The Peril of Voting and the Promise of Action
It may well be that no outrage yet carried out under the Trump regime has so galvanized popular disgust and opposition as the decision to implement a policy of separating children from parents when they arrive ...
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Scottsboro
Weโre driving down Route 72 Saturday morning from Huntsville to Scottsboro, a small blue collar city of fourteen thousand that the Tennessee wraps around like a fat brown snake before uncoiling down river. Scottsboro, that Alabama ...
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Ira Berlin: In Memorium
Ira Berlin, a great historian of slavery, died a few days ago. The following tribute to him is by Patrick Rael, a former student of Berlinโs and no mean historian himself. It does honor to Berlin, ...
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Breaking the Glass Ceiling: The confirmation of Gina Haspel as head of the CIA
โThe Fifty Percent Solutionโฆ an equal demand in the army and national guard, state troopers, sheriffs, and among the ranks of prosecuting attorneys. Why stop there? How about a movement for women’s revolutionary right to drop ...
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KILL, KILL, KILL: Reflections on Gaza
by Noel Ignatiev A 1983 film, WarGames, opens with an American pilot in the cockpit getting an order to launch a missile strike in retaliation for a Soviet attack on the U.S. Instead of carrying out ...
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