Hunger strikers and supporters, two of them in wheelchairs, headed a march of 5000 people in San Francisco, protesting bills in the US Congress which would criminalize immigrant status and violate the rights of immigrants.

As the light of day exposes their ugly corruption and decay, the Bush far-right cabal is moving even more strenuously and quietly to establish the structures that can be used to carry on their corporate agenda no matter who wins the election.

I think the big advantage we have now in scholarship on race in the last several decades is that we get to start from the fact that it’s a biological fiction.

Pride At Work, AFL-CIO is disappointed, though not surprised, by the boycott the American Family Association has instigated against Ford Motor Co.

In a setback for Ward Connerly and his so-called Michigan "Civil Rights" Initiative (MCRI), a new statewide poll released Thursday shows diminishing support for the initiative among Michigan voters.

Equality has become an unmentionable word in Congress. It doesn't come even once in the 300-page omnibus immigration bill introduced last week by Senator Arlen Specter.

In the wake of the successful confirmation of Samuel Alito to the Supreme Court, President Bush has re-nominated Brent Kavanaugh to the U.S. Court of Appeals for the District of Columbia.

The struggle against racism is not simply a subset of the many-layered and interconnected struggle for democracy, but the most important element of these struggles.

There is of course another way. We can draw upon our history and traditions to really create a great society for our people, where the wealth of the nation is organized to achieve social justice and equality, not to deepen inequality.

A march had been planned for February 28, the eve of the scheduled March 1 evictions of Hurricane Katrina victims.

Racism is not simply one group of people thinking badly about another...racism is not just an attitude, not just a feeling or a prejudice. Instead, racism is materially rooted in the institutional structures of our society.

A US soldier stationed in the United Arab Emirates (UAE) says he is being retaliated against for complaining when his superiors failed to fly the American Flag at half-mast in remembrance of civil rights leader Mrs. Coretta Scott King.

The Bush administration recently went out of its way to support an Iranian initiative to deny access to gay and lesbian organizati ons within the United Nations.

"As I pointed out in my remarks, the Hurricane Katrina was indiscriminate in both race and class in who it victimized. But the federal response wasn’t indiscriminate, and that’s the problem."

To pay for the increase in military spending, Bush has proposed potentially devastating cuts in funding to already under-funded social services.

Pride at Work mourns the passing of Coretta Scott King, 78. Symbolizing the struggle for civil rights, to the end Ms. King fought for equity, access and justice for all.

The Democrats are fighting among themselves whether to sustain a filibuster against the Alito nomination, which all progressive forces in the U.S. should demand that they carry forward in the most militant way. Progressives also should make clear that a filibuster must be carried forward.

The Atlanta Stonewall Democrats (ASD) held a launch celebration this evening for its new Atlanta chapter, which is meant to replace [and absorb] a former Georgia-wide group. Nationally, the Stonewall Democrats are a political coalition for gay, lesbian, bisexual, and transgender (glbt) Democrats and Democratic activists who support glbt issues.

The Republican Party "came and invaded the Black Church and tricked people into supporting Bush," Reverend Al Sharpton told a National Black Justice Coalition (NBJC) Summit here.

All Black members of the Georgia General Assembly, the leadership of the House Minority Caucus, US Rep. John Lewis (D-GA), and some members of the King family have boycotted a statewide MLK event in protest of the Georgia House’s passage of a controversial photo ID bill, Atlanta Progressive News has learned.