Labor councils are important but often overlooked for building working-class power. This article takes us from Tennessee to Vermont to examine how these vital organizations are faring today, while honoring one of their champions, Vonda McDaniel.
As you look at Alabama and other Southern states reintroducing racist gerrymanders, don’t think it can’t happen anywhere else. Trump isn’t building a ballroom for the next guy. It’s up to us to hold the line.
In the year’s most shocking documentary, The Alabama Solution, prisoners share astonishing footage in a plea for help
Repression and resistance
Supreme Court Justice Clarence Thomas has been imploring his colleagues for decades to gut a crucial part of the iconic Voting Rights Act that prohibits practices denying Blacks, Hispanics and other racial minorities an equal right to vote.
Trump's Plan to Render U.S. Citizens to Foreign Jails Seeks to Exploit Americans' Disinterest in the Rights of Prisoners.
No state has a longer, more profit-driven history of contracting prisoners out to private companies than Alabama. With a labor system that dates back more than 150 years, it has constructed a template for the commercialization of mass incarceration.
Amazon workers at a warehouse in Alabama should get a third opportunity to vote on unionizing, a federal labor judge has ruled.
Producer Brian Reed says he's working with AppleTV+ on a TV adaptation of 2017 podcast phenomenon S-Town
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