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Our classrooms are not sites of demoralized children who hate themselves and their country. Students are hungry for explanations — real explanations — for the world they have inherited.

Snowflake, Los Espookys, and other media breakthroughs you should know about

Backed by faith communities, the housing justice movement is racking up wins against landlords and banks profiting off of what should be a human right.

Daniel Foote, the former special envoy to Haiti, has offered scorching criticism of plans to meddle in the ongoing democratic crisis that has gripped the nation.

Putin says he’ll do whatever it takes in Ukraine. Biden is warning of “Armageddon.” Sixty years after the U.S.–Soviet standoff over Cuba, why is nuclear war still an ever-present worry?

We need to build a far-reaching global mass movement to defeat the authoritarian, neo-fascist threat to democratic rights and a better, more egalitarian future.

The protests of 2020 revealed the extent to which our political movements are at a real crossroads. Do we continue to place the vast majority of our hopes on conventional politics? Or do we really begin to engage in the necessary project of rebuilding a radical, even revolutionary left?

When the first humans moved out of Africa, they carried their gut microbes with them. Turns out, these microbes also evolved along with them.

The new deal at the Philadelphia Museum of Art union leaders told the Inquirer, included retroactive salary increases to July and 14 percent raises over the next three years. The minimum hourly wage for museum workers is set to increase from $15 to $16.75. Workers will also receive lowered costs for health care and four weeks of paid parental leave.

Recent calls to prohibit the study of race and racism in public schools would have dismayed Till-Mobley, who died in 2003. It’s more reason to remember her insistence that Till’s story be used to educate, even when some consider it controversial.