The Lessons of Scottsboro
Almost 80 years after the trial that condemned nine innocent Black teenagers to death for allegedly raping two white…
The Indypendent
Elizabeth Schulte
Refusing to Compromise On the Dream
Black America is hurting–from the suppression of voting rights, to police violence to the lack of access to good…
It’s Not Plan B If You Can’t Get It
Just as Plan B, or the "morning-after pill," looked like it would finally became available to women over the…
A Victory for Solidarity and Struggle
Chicago teachers are returning to work after a nine-day strike–standing proud after driving back Mayor Rahm Emanuel's attack on…
The battle has begun in Chicago, and the future of public schools and the labor movement–in this city and…
More than a million people in Pennsylvania alone might not get to vote in November if a new voter…
There was a lot of speechifying last week as the Obama administration urged the Senate to vote for the…
"Members of the Class of 2012: As a former secretary of labor and current professor, I feel I owe…
For Newt Gingrich and the other Republicans, it's just another talking point at a campaign stop or a candidates'…
Hundreds of workers–Black, white and Latino–rush in and out of the parking lot at the Smithfield Foods plant in…