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We need a moral movement to create change.

Mr. Wong died on Friday at 106. A Hollywood studio artist, painter, printmaker, calligrapher, greeting-card illustrator and, in later years, maker of fantastical kites, he was one of the most celebrated Chinese-American artists of the 20th century. But because of the marginalization to which Asian-Americans were long subject, he passed much of his career unknown to the general public.

Newly armed with the right to collective bargaining, teaching assistants, graduate assistants, and research assistants at private universities are organizing to join the ranks of the unionized.

A good starting point would be to stop making the Nazis and Japanese imperialists the most compelling characters in the series.

Anti-austerity rallies in solidarity with the new Greek government, including one in New York City

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Instead of confronting the truth, we scrubbed the record clean—and we’re still paying for it in Afghanistan and Iraq today.

A new report argues persuasively that the history of 'racial terror lynching' needs to be properly commemorated and more widely discussed before the United States can fully understand the causes and origins of the racial injustice that hobbles the country to this day.

The bloody history of mine workers in West Virginia is truly as dark as any dungeon, but the recent indictment of a mine owner suggests that maybe the tide has turned.

Ann Wayt, a veteran registered nurse, was awarded more than $2 million in damages by a jury. She was fired in 2012, shortly after Affinity nurses voted to join National Nurses Organizing Committee-Ohio, a state affiliate of the National Nurses United.