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This new biography of the famed Harlem Renaissance poet, novelist, and historian focuses on his pioneering work in the early international Communist movement on behalf of Black liberation.

On July 7, 97% of Guttmacher employees voted in favor of unionizing. Within hours, a worker and key organizer of the union effort was fired.

Freight train drivers who direct 20 billion tons of goods per year have threatened to walk off the job.

Directed by Billy Porter, the high school romance "Anything’s Possible" teaches timely lessons about love and tolerance

The USDA has kept cheese and other dairy products in cold-storage caves for decades. But their purpose has shifted over the years.

Profits are booming and corporations are raising prices, but instead of regulating corporations, the Federal Reserve is using its powers to create a recession and raise unemployment. Workers will suffer.

Over the past decade, a low-wage workforce that chases solar installation projects from state to state for meager wages has proliferated around the country.

Gay rights, corporate scheming, and family drama make for a taut and densely plotted episode on For All Mankind

This article is part of Countervailing Power, a joint series by The American Prospect and The Forge that explores the ways organizers can use public policy to build mass membership organizations to countervail oligarchic power. The series was developed in collaboration with the Working Families Party, the Action Lab, and Social and Economic Justice Leaders.

As war returns to eastern Europe, the Croatian-born poet Mirna Hirschl depicts a personal sorrow.