In 1957 he was elected president of the Southern Christian Leadership Conference, an organization formed to provide new leadership for the now burgeoning civil rights movement. The ideals for this organization he took from Christianity; its operational techniques from Gandhi. In the eleven-year peri...

My name is Assata ("she who struggles") Shakur ("the thankful one"), and I am a 20th century escaped slave. Because of government persecution, I was left with no other choice than to flee from the political repression, racism and violence that dominate the US government's policy towards people of co...

"There go my fellow conservatives, glumly shuffling along, depressed by the election aftermath. Not me. I'm virtually euphoric. Don't get me wrong. I'm not thrilled with America's flirtation with neosocialism. But there's a massive silver lining in the magical clouds that lofted Barack Obama to the ...

First, let me start this post by saying: HOW BOUT DEM PHILS? Okay, that felt good. I don't have time to do a lot of writing tonight. But I am going to leave you with a little cut and paste job from my hometown paper. It's an excellent article, and it was written by Dana Difillippo, and Steohania Far...

Black Power Interesting story on the BBC about the man who shared the Olympic medal podium with United States' sprinters Tommie Smith and John Carlos at the 1968 Summer Olympics, where the two Americans infamously made their "Black Panthers" salute protest. For his support of the two athletes, Austr...

Today is Blog Action Day 2008. The topic for this year is Poverty. Why do we need special days for thinking about things such as education, poverty, hunger, homelessness? Why cant we, every day, do something to help make the world a better place. Poverty is an interesting thing. The poorest of the p...

Saadia Marciano, 58, a former member of the Israeli Knesset who got his start in public life as a leader of the radical "Black Panthers" movement of poor Sephardic Jews, died Dec. 21, 2007, in a Jerusalem hospital, reports Jewish obituaries website In My Heart...

Though most of the leading Jewish communists in Europe were Jews of Ashkenazic origin, there were a substantial number of Sephardim too who were active in Socialist and Communist movements, particularly in Yugoslavia whose Jewish population had been majority Sephardic for some time [1]. One of the s...