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Nikki Giovanni is one of America’s most acclaimed poets and a well-known voice of the Civil Rights, Black Power, and Black Lives Matter movements. A powerful writer and trailblazing activist, Giovanni’s words have inspired the masses for decades.

A short guide to commonly diluted, adulterated and/or fraudulent foods.

The Boys spin-off show explores trans identities through its shapeshifting supe

The poet Jane Hirshfield offers a grieved portrayal of contemporary impotence and apathy.

Written in 1972, during Greece’s military junta, leftist Marios Chakkas’s recently translated novel The Commune is a mournful testament from a world where the stakes of politics were communism or fascism, democracy or dictatorship.

Alissa Quart’s New Book Debunks ‘Self-made’ Myth

A northern pub landlord confronts locals’ hostility towards Syrian refugees in Loach’s latest – and possibly last – piece of politically trenchant cinema

Plant-based milk products such as almond milk have reached over $3 billion in annual domestic sales. The dairy industry — and the politicians who support it — want to stop producers from labeling almond, soy, and oat milk as “milk."

Though it’s not an outright race-focused series, the new Apple TV+ drama is clearly in the vein of shows like ‘Them’ and ‘Lovecraft Country’

Loss of liberty, the rise of civil terror, asks San Francisco poet Beau Beausoleil. Is that where we are headed?