Tag: Civil Rights Movement

Minnesota Immigrant Rights Activists Honor, Learn from Civil Rights Movement

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On March 8, 2026, Minnesotans active in the fight against the Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) siege in their state traveled to Selma, Alabama, to join a commemoration of the day in 1965 known as “Bloody Sunday.” On March 7, 1965, police — some on horseback and armed with Billy clubs and tear gas — attached civil rights demonstrators on the Edmund Pettus Bridge as they attempted a 50-mile march to the state capital of Montgomery. The decision by the Minnesota Immigrant Defense Network (IDN) to take 100 immigrant rights leaders from the upper Midwest to Selma is a sign of the connections being made as a result of the fight against the ICE “Operation Metro Surge” in Minneapolis and throughout Minnesota since the beginning of this year. Those who mobilized for over three months to defend immigrant communities are looking for lessons of the past that can help strengthen their struggle. They are making connections with others involved in the struggle for social justice — today’s activists and veterans of past resistance. 

Celebrating 100 Years since Birth of Malcolm X

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Today, May 19, is the centenary of the birth of African American leader Malcolm X. To celebrate his life and legacy, we publish below excerpts from one of his most famous speeches, “The Ballot or the Bullet.” Malcolm X emerged as the outstanding leader of the popular struggle for Black liberation in the United States. The post-World War II rise of that struggle was one of the most important political developments in the last half of the 20th century. (The other such development, advancing revolutionary prospects for the exploited and oppressed, was the triumph of the Cuban Revolution in 1959).

Critical Race Theory – What Are the Issues? (III)

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This is the third and final part of a three-part series on what are the issues in a public debate in the United States on critical race theory (CRT). The first part explained how the right-wing campaign against CRT is aimed at preventing the teaching of essential facts of US history. The second article outlined why distortions of history by liberal academics, journalists, or others weaken the effort to place facts and evidence at the center of the study of history as well as the fight against racism. This article takes up other notions that present similar obstacles to such an effective fight, including arguments that “embracing white guilt” or “renouncing white privilege” are necessary to combat racism.