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“Life for me ain’t been no crystal stair.” And yet, we must continue to climb, “sometimes goin’ in the dark, where there ain’t been no light.”

Its main objective is to remove young people from war and violence and encourage them to fight for a better world.

So, you know, it is extraordinary that al-Qaeda has been the great sort of winner of the conflicts over the last—whenever it is, since 9/11, and they’ve—and managed to make such tremendous gains without much opposition from Washington or London or Paris.

A.D.H.D, NSA, Inequality,The Coming Crash, Happiness and Market Fundamentalism

Melville's tale describes the deep structures of a racism that was born in chattel slavery but didn't die with it. Racism, in the United States at least, was grafted onto slavery, while at the same time disguised by a potent kind of individualism, a cult of individual supremacy, based on the fantasy that some men were born natural slaves and that others could be absolutely free.

A new study, titled "Jim Crow 2.0? Why States Consider and Adopt Restrictive Voter Access Policies," concludes that restrictive voter measures are connected to both partisan and racial factors.

Food is an essential part of health and wellbeing. But mismanaged, unregulated, recklessly advertised, poorly produced and over consumed, food can have dire public health consequences.

Woody Guthrie's Jesus Christ. Playing for Change's Low Down Dirty Christmas. Jesus: The Missing Years. The Barcelona Gypsy Klezmer Orchestra's Shalom Alechem. Movie: The Gospel According to St. Matthew.

A behind the scenes look in North Korea to explain the dramatic recent events in Pyongyang. Events there show a Shakespearean tragedy that has ended with the execution of the person widely seen as the power behind the throne. No one performs Shakespeare in the theaters of Pyongyang. Instead, he is enacted in the corridors of power.

Mayor Bloomberg pushed through re-zoning of nearly 40 percent of New York City. Bill de Blasio campaigned against urban gentrification. Can the new mayor reverse the trend? Can big-city electoral coalitions buck the trend of the real estate and financial speculators? Author Michael Hirsch reviews the new book about Chicago's mayor Rahm Emanuel - the mayor of the 1% in the second largest city of the country.