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Le Guin's novels, short stories, and poems have been delighting audiences for over half a century.

The redemption of a racist cop in the awards season favorite will surely tug at the heartstrings of industry voters. But it’s unearned, manipulative and altogether offensive.

Georgia Gilmore was a Montgomery cook, whose fried chicken sandwiches and other foods fed the African-American men and women planning the bus boycott; the money raised helped pay for the alternative transportation system during the 381-day bus boycott.

The election at the LA Times comes on the heels of a recent spate of successful media union drives.

Most white voters voted for Trump, but not even most working-class white voters voted for him. If Roseanne and Dan Conner voted for Trump, it is not because they are working-class.

The move by Unifor comes a day after Canada's largest private sector union split from the CLC.

Besides his role in voter suppression efforts, Farr, 63, also worked for a group founded by Southern business owners with the goal of suppressing workers' right to organize.

Florida-based poet Lolita Stewart-White addresses the paradox of race hatred that seems never to go away.

Shortly before his death, James Baldwin wrote that in the U.S., “White is a metaphor for power,” an observation that is deep background for much of the discussion in the masterly book under review, where race and class are intertwined, yet surface differences are used to split the labor force and maintain capital’s hegemony. The book can usefully inform debate on race and class and aid in reconstructing a revolutionary project in the context of Trumpworld.

Fifty years after Martin Luther King, Jr., stood with striking Memphis sanitation workers who were fed up with low pay and dangerous conditions, United Electrical Workers (UE) Local 150 is launching a campaign in the same spirit.