Rioters during the attacks in Peekskill By Nina Silber, Professor of History, Boston University Few Americans today know about the events...

Via Living Artist Society Press Release and Event Site This year marks the 75th anniversary of the Peekskill Riots, and to commemorate...

W.E.B. Du Bois, the scholar, civil rights activist, historian and communist was born in 1868 in Massachusetts. He died on August 27, 1963...

On June 12, 1956 the great American singer, actor, athlete, Communist and all-around Renaissance man Paul Robeson appeared before the...

With news from France, the USA, Brazil, Kazakhstan, Ireland, Canada, Cuba, Norway, the DPRK and elsewhere. There is also a section...

Paul Robeson on a trip to the Soviet Union, December 1934, with famed film director Sergei Eisenstein (right). -- Daily LIFT #900

The power of spirit that our people have is intangible, but it is a great force that must be unleashed in the struggles of today. A...

An in-depth look at the Soviet Artek Pioneer youth camp, a sprawling internationalist complex of ten sub-camps and various facilities...

Paul Robeson Sings a Song of Peace in Peekskill, New York, poster USSR 1950 -- Daily LIFT #430 A truly magnificent Soviet poster...

Today is the birthday of one of the towering figures of 20th Century American musical and political history, Paul Robeson. Despite his...

Paul Robeson and W.E.B DuBois great each other at the World Congress of the Partisans of Peace, 1949 -- Daily LIFT #397 Incredible photo...

With music by Paul Robeson Joe Hill, the IWW union organizer and hero, murdered by the bosses in Utah in 1915, was born on this day in...