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Davis viewed his confrontation with HUAC and the University of Michigan as an opportunity. He willingly risked both his freedom and his career to expose and perhaps even put an end to the establishment’s willingness to quash left political dissent.

AFL-CIO report finds that workers of color are dying on the job at increasingly higher rates. Black workers’ job fatality rate is the highest it’s been in nearly 15 years. Latino workers continue to face the greatest risk of dying on the job.

Over 80 years after its discovery, LSD may finally have found a medical application. A new study shows that it is highly effective at treating generalised anxiety disorder for up to 12 weeks with just a single dose. And it is fast acting.

Mumia Abu-Jamal tells New York City students they’re on the right side of history by deciding ‘not to be silent and to speak out’

Environmental Justice Wins (in 1997), School Integration Loses (1959), Wrist Slap for Torturers (2004), Pete Seeger’s Birthday (1919), No Place to Be Somebody Opens (1969), National Conference on Lynching (1919), ‘We Don’t Want to Radiate!’ (1979)

Congo Square Theatre presents How I Learned What I Learned by August Wilson. Harry Lennix is featured in this one-man autobiographical play about growing up in Pittsburgh and moving through the experiences that would form him as a man and an artist.

The white, nationalist, evangelical conservative movement and the Republican Party targeted women's control over their reproductive life: they have reaped a political whirlwind.

This Passover, we don’t need or want the false idol of Zionism. We want freedom from the project that commits genocide in our name

A new history of Indonesia’s fight for independence reveals the brutal means by which the Dutch tried to retain power.

Scientists are making computer models to better understand how the mysterious insects emerge collectively after more than a decade underground.