Ricardo Levins-Morales Archives

May 1: International Workers Day

International Workers’ Day began as a commemoration of the 1886 Haymarket massacre in Chicago.

My Vote by Ricardo Levins Morales | Zinn Education Project: Teaching People's History

Racism, Xenophobia, and the Election

As teachers and students return to classrooms this fall, together we have to try to make sense of a tumultuous presidential campaign and a summer of racial violence that have forcefully surfaced the racism that plagues our nation.

What Rights Do We Have?

Teaching Activity. By Bill Bigelow and Norm Diamond. 7 pages.
This lesson teaches some of the nuts and bolts of labor unions and then moves beyond to ask students to consider what rights they have at work, and to recognize that “rights” depend in large part on what people have fought for and won.

Teaching Activity by Norm Diamond

Feb. 26, 2012: Trayvon Martin Murdered

Trayvon Martin, a Black teenager, was murdered. The death of Martin and acquittal of the man who shot him sparked the national and global Movement for Black Lives.

The Labor Movement

Poster. By Ricardo Levins Morales.
Poster describes the positive impact of the labor movement.

Study History

Poster. By Ricardo Levins Morales. 11" x 15".
Beautiful illustration on the connection between history and our future.

Che Guevara. Art by Ricardo Levins Morales.

Oct. 9, 1967: Che Guevara Executed

Che Guevara was killed by U.S. military backed-Bolivian forces, working with the CIA.