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Kebo Drew, a queer activist and award-winning poet, has spent her career covering the topic of the African diaspora to the Americas. Her work has given her a unique perspective [...]

Eleanor Marx, daughter of German philosopher Karl Marx, was honored with the blue plaque outside her former home at Jews Walk in Sydenham, UK by the patronage of English Heritage in recognition of her work in labor and socialist movement. Marx is said to have taken her own life due to the philandering of her husband Edward Aveling, who some believed had contrived her death.

[ILLUSTRATION OMITTED] Thank you for the article about my sister Dorothy ("Amazon warrior," April). Kathy Coffey caught the essence of Dorothy when she quoted her saying, "No time to waste. […]

JANE JACOBS, the mousy, white-haired street fighter of Greenwich Village in the sixties, is famous for the wrong things: battling the overweening policies of urban renewal and defeating Robert Moses's [...]

IN HONOR OF Queen Barnes Antoinette Barnes Nakeisha Blades Susan Schewel Gina Eichenbaum-Tikser Luise Eichenbaum Ellen Harding Carol Dixon Kristin Heron Manda Heron Johanna Johanson Yvonne Trayham Sarah Ridge Manda [...]

It was a joy to discover journalist June Callwood at centre stage in Canada's media when she died in April of this year. By now, you'll have heard about her [...]

Italians have saints. The Japanese have National Treasures. We had June Callwood. Every country is a mystery composed of the lives of men and women, bound loosely together in common […]

Libraries across the nation honored Dr. Martin Luther King Jr. with a variety of programs. In Milwaukee, city Poet Laureate Peggy Hong (center) leads middle-school students January 8 during the [...]

She's a clean-cut, all-American, born-again Christian lesbian who knows the pulse of gay women's lives all over central Florida--and helps keep that pulse vibrantly alive through her Web site, ProSuzy.com. [...]

I came to write William Sloane Coffin Jr.'s biography by happenstance. My wife first had the idea, but tossed it my way when she was starting a new job and […]

In 1756, a 10-year old girl arrived in Charleston, South Carolina, on a slave ship from Sierra Leone. The wealthy rice planter who purchased her (and several other children) changed [...]

Longstanding MR readers will recall the many important contributions to this magazine by Grace Lee Boggs who, along with her late husband, the African-American writer and activist James Boggs, wrote [...]

In honor of NWHN's 30th anniversary, we will honor 30 activists who represent the values and aspirations of the women's health movement. Honorees will be people who created and inspired [...]

A plaque in memory of social reformer Jeremy Bentham has been erected on the gateway of his original residence. The house, in what came to be called Queen's Square Place, [...]

Coach crafters in Northfield, Minnesota have planned a unique way to pay tribute to Rosa Parks who had made a historic refusal, 50 years ago, to give up her seat to a white passenger. On December 1, 2005 they would unveil a 1955 model General Motors transit bus that would remind everyone of the incident that led to the famous U.S. Supreme Court ruling of 1956 that banned segregation on city transit vehicles.

Hero: Ralph Nader Ralph Nader is an example of how one determined, well-organized person can make a tremendous difference against great odds. Ralph Nader's early books exposed serious safety shortcomings [...]

When I think of my friend Paul Wellstone, two things stand out. First was his ability to see and inspire the best in young people. Second was his constant passion [...]

My first opportunity to see Pete Seeger in concert came some fifteen years ago, in a small New England coastal town. He was there to sing of peace, social justice […]

The world has learned, thanks to Secretary of Energy Hazel O'Leary, that the U.S. government conducted 204 underground nuclear tests during the last half-century without any public mention, the last […]