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“He does not represent us,” writes poet Marge Piercy about the misogynist Senator, but knows the “clichés that light up brains.”

In honoring Black History Month, the author lists 10 superlative books by radical voices instrumental in cohering modern black thought.

This new book offers a history and analysis of the contributions of black workers to our society. It shows just how key a knowledge of black workers' history is to an understanding the working class's fortunes and history overall.

'Joker' is ultimately an-in-your face examination of a broken system that creates its own monsters. It’s a gritty and morbidly beautiful journey with little comfort to spare, but many messages to mull over.

Raising Dion is skilled in parsing down complex social systems for a younger audience, especially through Esperanza, who often compares her experience as a person with a disability to being invisible.

Los Angeles poet Lynne Thompson traces the generation gap of the 1960s and the transition of naming from Negro to Black.

Timing matters. The book under review--a history of whistle blowing-- was released coterminous with news of a whistleblower's alleging evidence of Trump's criminal misfeasance in office, the commission of which could cost him the presidency.

Photographer Dawoud Bey has been taking portraits of a wide range of African American subjects for decades. His powerful, but apparently unassuming style imprints on our minds the beauty of everyday people.

Shot on three phones over three years and across hundreds of miles, "Midnight Traveler" takes us inside a desperate journey for a new home.

In many countries in Asia and Latin America, an organization funded by food and beverage companies quietly fights restrictions on sugary or processed foods.