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by Peter Dreier As we celebrate his birthday, it is easy to forget that Rev. Martin Luther King was a democratic socialist. In 1964, accepting the Nobel Peace Prize in Oslo, he observed that the United States could learn much from Scandinavian “democratic...

There’s the City of Brotherly Love in Pennsylvania, and then there’s Philadelphia, Mississippi: Philadelphia in June 1964 was the scene of the murders of activists James Chaney, a 21-year-old black man from Meridian, Mississippi; Andrew Goodman, a ...

Below is an incredible, insightful article from former BLA member and political prisoner Dhoruba Bin Wahad that is absolutely essential. He painstakingly lays out the proper historical context in which we should see the plight of freedom fighter Assata...

I think we’ve often forgotten the economic issues that were really central to the march, in hindsight. That’s something that we need to remember as we remember this march, that it really was—and I think had a very profound effect on...

Follow @NewsOneOfficial Follow @TamikaDMallory 1. Justice for Ramarley Graham: It’s been more than two years since the New York City Police Department broke down the door of unarmed 18-year-old Ramarley Graham’s Bronx home and shot...