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As Benjamin Franklin once said, anyone who is willing to trade freedom for security is likely to wind up with neither."

The language of the moment suggests that it's Blackness that's the problem, not bias.

“Max Elbaum has given us an incisive and critical history of the Other New Left – the radicals who brought class struggle and Third World liberation to the forefront, looked to the world for allies, and tried their best to work through the dynamics of race and class.

Today's Poor People's Campaign seeks to develop local leadership, including strong representation of the millions of poor people — black, brown, and white — to create a multi-racial, multi-gendered, intergenerational movement to heal the racial and economic divides tearing America apart.

What is needed is a broad-based coalitional effort to combat not only street violence, school violence and sexual violence but also state violence.

“Since their invention, online forums for advertisements and community-building have been essential to sex worker survival,” says Liz Afton, a counselor at the Sex Workers Project, an initiative of New York City’s Urban Justice Center (UJC).

In March, the New York Parole Board granted parole for Herman Bell. A judge in New York has suspended the release of Bell.

America’s security depends on defeating oligarchy abroad and at home.

Women’s general strike; MLK and hip-hop; Supporting the kids; Teachers hit the bricks; Labour’s scandal up close

The problem is that employers continue to engage in pay disparities without real accountability.