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What happens when corporate America appropriates high school football . . .

Comics critics say they are hard pressed to remember Batman ever addressing institutional racism and its socio-economic dimensions as bluntly as this in the character’s 75-year history.

The refugee influx struck a strong emotional chord with me, as a Hungarian-American visiting my parents' homeland. I had arrived in Hungary on August 25 with my wife Debi, to visit my late Catholic mother's relatives, and retrace the stories of my Jewish father who had survived the genocide of World War II.

'Show Me A Hero' serves as a reminder that some of the worst segregation in America persists above the Mason-Dixon line.

From McCleary to charters to a new contract, it’s all looking up for organized teachers.

This week’s military coup by Burkina Faso’s elite presidential guard on the eve of the scheduled Oct. 11 national elections has sparked widespread resistance and at least 10 deaths. General Gilbert Diendere, the former commander of the Regiment of Presidential Security, trained and funded by the U.S. and France, is the coup’s leader. He is also the former chief of staff to ex-President Blaise Compaore, ousted after 27 years of misrule by a 2014 popular uprising.

After four years as a growing, thriving voice of Walmart workers, the Organization United for Respect at Walmart (OUR Walmart) re-launched itself on Thursday. Founded and funded by the United Food and Commercial Workers Union, OUR Walmart will now rely more heavily on a coalition of 20 community-based partners. OUR Walmart will not attempt to gain union recognition, but continue its fight for $15 an hour minimum pay and improved working conditions and protections.