The pioneer of the modern civil rights movement was an African-American labor leader named A. Philip Randolph. “A” stood for Asa. As an intellectual committed to racial and social justice shaped by the Harlem Renaissance,
Today begins one of the most important weekends in American history. Over this three day weekend, our nation will inaugurate and celebrate the second term of our first African-American president – one of the
Dr. King They will tell you he was a drum major. All about service and leading the band. He was that. But Dr. King was so much more. Warrior chief for justice and peace and radical love. Jesus love. Nonviolent fighter,
In a wonderful irony of America’s continuing struggle with and for racial justice, President Obama’s second inauguration is on the same weekend as our Dr. King Holiday, the man who led the nonviolent revolution
New York Times columnist, Princeton economics professor and Nobel Prize winner Paul Krugman was on the Sunday tv pundit circuit and he was great. He accused Radical Rightwing Republicans of holding the United States
We’ve talked a lot in this space about the abomination of income and wealth inequality, the shrinking of the middle class, and the loss of opportunity for the poor. There are two recent, even immediate,
“Rise up shepherd, rise up,” Bruce Springsteen “The Boss” sings on his new disc – to us, to you and me, those of us with eyes to see and ears to hear. “We take
Still thinking about the great Woody Guthrie tribute in Oklahoma City. It was such a great and powerful night. It reminds me of the power of our work, in this case, the art of
“You see, Dr. King understood that it is organizing that makes us most human. He knew that when we use our social nature to lift each other up, we express our full humanity. We
Stewart Acuff has spent 35 years in the labor movement working for economic and social justice for working people, In his new book Playing Bigger Than You Are: A Life in Organizing he shares
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