Race and Civil Rights
June 20, 2011 -
By Cole Weintraub, Labor Notes
June 20, 2011 -
By Rosana Cruz, Bridge the Gulf
June 9, 2011 -
If you're a Republican legislator eager to
June 2, 2011 -
Would-be president Newt Gingrich calls Barack Obama our "most successful food stamp president," Santana gets booed at the "Civil Rights" baseball game in Atlanta for criticizing Georgia's new immigration law, and politicians in Alabama forbid undocumented children from attending the school prom.
May 30, 2011 -
In 1865, formerly enslaved people in Charleston, South Carolina, held a procession to honor Union soldiers who had died in a local Confederate prison camp. Known as "Decoration Day," the ceremony foreshadowed what would become our modern Memorial Day.
