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Victory in Georgia textile

News Analysis African American women unionize in the rural South Contributed LOUISVILE & WAYNESBORO, GA. – On Oct. 13, 18 months after voting to join the Amalgamated Clothing and Textile Workers Union (ACTWU), 600 workers at the Samsons and Delila... Read More »

National Black United Front: A decade of struggle

NBUF Convention set for Chicago by Tim Thomas Meeting under the theme “A Decade of Commitment and Struggle,” the National Black United Front (NBUF) will hold its 10th Annual Convention in Chicago, July 20-23. NBUF was founded in June 1980,... Read More »

Not In My Backyard

Ohio community fights toxic waste incinerator Mark Prudowsky, Contributed WARREN, OHIO — A newly constructed waste incinerator — less than 900 feet from the homes and school yards of the 6th ward, the heart of this city’s African American community... Read More »

Jesse Jackson and the Significance of Super Tuesday

Commentary – March 21, 1988 By Amiri Baraka Jesse Jackson’s victories in the Super Tuesday primaries pageant are a “symbolic” reference to the existence of the African American nation in the Black-belt South. The five states won approximate the core... Read More »

Janitors’ rights stand above Atlanta highrises

Black women’s union drive demands dignity in heart of New South Atlanta — when people talk about the “New South,” they often mention Atlanta — one of the region’s biggest and most modem cities. Yet much of this image masks... Read More »

Gov. Kean’s Evil Still Undead

Amiri Baraka Newark, N.J. — New Jersey’s Governor Kean, like his lame duck Presidential misleader, Ronald Reagan, wants to leave the people a monument of his “white supremacy – make-the-rich-richer” ideology when he moves on to other evils. Kean’s once-defeated,... Read More »

John Oliver Killens

1916-1987 A tribute in his memory By Amiri Baraka JOHN KILLENS WAS A BLACK writer who not only sought to describe and analyze U.S. imperialist society as it has repressed and deformed Black life, but also how this world girdling... Read More »

Black women challenge the open shop in Mississippi

New victory in catfish union drive Peter Shapiro The 3,500 mainly Black women workers in Mississippi’s booming catfish industry are moving into the front ranks of the struggle for unionization and for equality and political power in the state. On... Read More »

The Lynching of Fred Dube

The spirit of Howard Beach Comes to SUNY In a major assault on academic freedom, Zionist forces have been trying to get Professor E. Fred Dube fired from the Africana Studies Department of the State University of New York (SUNY),... Read More »

How to Skin a Catfish Company; Winds of change are blowing in Mississippi

Behind the union win by Black women in Mississippi The dramatic victory of a nine-month organizing drive at Delta Pride in Indianola in October by the United Food and Commercial Workers (UFCW) highlights a spreading movement for union recognition among... Read More »

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Victory in Georgia textile

National Black United Front: A decade of struggle

Not In My Backyard

Jesse Jackson and the Significance of Super Tuesday

Janitors’ rights stand above Atlanta highrises

Gov. Kean’s Evil Still Undead

John Oliver Killens

Black women challenge the open shop in Mississippi

The Lynching of Fred Dube

How to Skin a Catfish Company; Winds of change are blowing in Mississippi

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CHANCE OF A LIFETIME Oral History Project

GETTING TOGETHER PUBLICATIONS

AMIRI BARAKA

CHANCE OF A LIFETIME
Oral History Project