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January 15, 2020

Hundreds of Hondurans Set Out for US Border: ‘Little Difference If You Die Here or There’

Staff and agencies in San Pedro Sula The Guardian

Prospects of reaching the U.S. border are remote after Trump’s crackdown on migration as Mexico and Guatemala tighten control on migrants

January 15, 2020

'CNN Is Truly a Terrible Influence on This Country': Democratic Debate Moderators Pilloried for Centrist Talking Points and Anti-Sanders Bias

Jessica Corbett Common Dreams

"This is an unusually vile performance by CNN," tweeted Rolling Stone contributing editor Matt Taibbi.

January 15, 2020

Not an Inch: Indian Students Stand Against the Far-Right

Vijay Prashad Independent Media Institute

Students were attacked by a group of masked men and women on the campus of Jawaharlal Nehru University.

January 15, 2020

Sports Illustrated Staffers Become Latest to Try to Unionize

Kathryn Hopkins WWD

The 2019 trend of newsrooms unionizing shows no sign of running out of steam as a new year begins.The latest is Sports Illustrated, with the majority of its staff revealing today that they intend to form a union with the NewsGuild of New York

January 15, 2020

Wilmington's Lie: The Murderous Coup of 1898 and the Rise of White Supremacy

Steve Nathans-Kelly New York Journal of Books

The 1898 white supremacist riot in Wilmington, North Carolina, which African American writer Charles Chesnutt immortalized in his novel The Marrow of Tradition (1901), is brought to life again in this new historical account.

January 15, 2020