Chuck Turner

Note: Chuck Turner’s column A Luta Continua will appear on a regular basis in BC. Dear Supporters, By the 1980s, it was clear to me that my goals for Black social and economic liberation could only be achieved by developing a framework of economic democracy and economic rights that would provide a foundation for the…

Dear Supporters, I have been waiting for some analyst, blogger, or columnist, etc. to draw the parallels between the millions of people demonstrating throughout the Middle East and the hundreds of thousands of people, demonstrating in the State House and streets of Madison, Wisconsin. However, I have neither seen nor heard such analysis. To me…

I attended a symposium November 5, 2006 at the JFK Library in Boston, focused on the Civil Rights Movement in Boston from 1960 to 1968. Good event. Well organized, bringing together many of the key participants of that era with an audience filled not only with thirty, forty, fifty, and of course sixty-somethings, but also…

As an activist for over forty years and a City Councilor for the last seven, I am amazed at the lack of discussion within the Black activist community regarding the unemployment crisis facing our people. Professor Andy Sum of Northeastern University announced last summer, through the New York Times, after surveying unemployment in cities across…