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Boseman was a superhero on screen, but his work defending the dignity of Black people’s image on screen was his best. In 2003, after he questioned a soap opera’s stereotypical depiction of a Black teen, he was fired.

Amazon uses such tools as navigation software, item scanners, wristbands, thermal cameras, security cameras and recorded footage to surveil its workforce in warehouses and stores.

Recently, the boundaries of what a cookbook is or should be are changing, including cookbooks as a form of resistance.

Basketball players (and others) struck for Black Lives. The NBA Players Association won an agreement from owners to use arenas as polling places. Other unions have also signed a statement supporting Work Stoppages for Black Lives: What next?

Abdul Malik analyzes the major league sports stoppages from an organizing perspective.

You know you’re not doing great when you make a public show of giving some new privileges and benefits to your employees in the wake of a scandal, and the general reaction is “Wait, you weren’t letting people take paid time off to go to the doctor?"

Despite its outcome, this week’s NBA wildcat strike provided a crucial lesson for all of us: we have to disrupt owners’ profits and engage in collective action if we have any hope of making change.

“I’m trying to tell you that the world is beautiful,” writes Brooklyn poet Cynthia Manick; and in her rendering it is.

By striking, the players in the NBA, MLB, and beyond have brought their bosses to the table and launched a national conversation.

Union membership in the UK hit a historic low (23%) a few years ago. The pandemic has reminded many workers that the unions are their protective shield in a situation where employers were ordering them back to work in unsafe circumstances.