martin luther king

February 28, 2014 - Historically speaking, African Americans have often connected questions of self-determination and equality at home with the fates of oppressed people in Latin America, Africa, and the Global South generally.

January 20, 2014 - Dr. Martin Luther King Jr. was assassinated in Memphis while speaking out for striking sanitation workers. The civil rights community is once again rallying behind struggling workers in the city -- this time, union employees who were locked out of the Kellogg cereal factory, where the workforce is majority African-American.

January 17, 2014 - A new report by United for a Fair Economy examines the racial economic implications of one of the most important human rights issues and public policy debates of the day: health care.

December 6, 2013 - Before Nelson Mandela became a global icon, civil rights activists in the U.S. South were bringing attention to the injustice of apartheid -- and learning from the South African struggle for freedom and justice.

August 27, 2013 - The NAACP partners with Nissan, which is fighting union organizing efforts at plants in Mississippi and Tennessee? What would Martin Luther King Jr. and Medgar Evers say? And Walmart promoting American-made products? Really?

August 22, 2013 - As the 50th anniversary of the historic march nears, there are a few points that cannot be overlooked if we want to honor its true story, writes Bill Fletcher Jr.

June 18, 2013 - In the wake of the NSA surveillance revelations, Gulf Coast advocate Cherri Foytlin considers her own experience of monitoring by federal authorities while pressing for justice from BP, part of a long history of U.S. spying on people's movements.