Higher rates of homelessness among African Americans is closely tied to employment discrimination. Both must end.
As we transition from a hot labor summer to labor's continued fightback this fall, what lessons can we draw from U.S. labor history?
Black August celebrates the history of protest against racist oppression in the U.S., and Saturday's March on Washington continued in that tradition of struggle for full racial equality.
The CPUSA supports the unity of the world Communist movement, and of left forces against U.S. imperialism. We do not take sides in disputes between parties building socialism.
Paul Robeson was one of the most famous Black Americans of the early 20th century, but McCarthyism ended his career and attempted to purge him from history altogether.