activism

Updated 11/18/14

They called it Freedom Summer - 10 weeks in 1964 when more than 700 student volunteers from around the country joined organizers and local activists in a historic effort to end the vestiges of racial oppression across the South, including what PBS described as "one of the nation's most viciously…

After Edgar Bronfman Sr. took over the reins of Seagram in the early 1970s, he expanded the liquor company founded by his father Samuel into a sprawling global comglomerate, taking over juice-maker Tropicana and expanding into the oil and chemical businesses as well.

Breast cancer activist Barbara Brenner, who  died on May 10 at age 61 in San Francisco, refused to wear a pink ribbon. As she told a newspaper interviewer back in 1996, she already wore a symbol of her concern about the disease: a horizontal scar across her chest. But more important, she was…

 

Nalcrest is a haven for retired mail carriers, and they're "delivering a first-class protest" against the demise of the U.S. Postal Service.

Members of Congress will be returning to Washington DC next week after a month-long recess. How about we give them a nice welcome-back present?

Dorothy Height was a hero. The leader of the civil rights movement who played an essential role in several of the achievements the movement made for equality in the 50s and 60s, passed away yesterday. Her work for racial equality and women's rights will not be forgotten.