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King understood that no single approach would be sufficient to combat the interconnected evils of racism, economic exploitation and militarism.

A federal program of subsidized employment would empower workers, strengthen communities, and move us toward a more equitable economy for everyone.

King called himself a democratic socialist. He believed that America needed a "radical redistribution of economic and political power."

“Honey Cake and Latkes: Recipes from the Old World by the Auschwitz-Birkenau Survivors” was organized by the Auschwitz-Birkenau Memorial Foundation. More than one survivor remembers sustaining fellow-prisoners with vivid descriptions of the foods they’d eaten in their earlier lives.

Nurses at Mount Sinai South Nassau voted by a majority to join the New York State Nurses Association. The approximately 800 nurses at South Nassau represent the last non-union facility in the entire Mount Sinai health system.

Taxes must be increased for the ultra-rich as a “strategic precondition to reducing inequality and resuscitating democracy,” Gabriela Bucher, executive director of Oxfam International said.

Workers at Peet’s Coffee & Tea in California have announced that they’re filing for a union election. They’re not just inspired by their peers at Starbucks — they’ve been organizing with and learning directly from them.

The 8-episode first season of Kindred forms an uneven, haunting adaptation of Octavia Butler’s classic.

A pair of democratic socialists have formed the state’s first socialist caucus since the 1930s.

Left out of GOP debates about “the weaponization” of the federal government is the use of the FBI to spy on civil rights leaders for most of the 20th century. Martin Luther King Jr. was one of the targets.