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Neandertals at a site in Croatia exhibited a range of behaviors traditionally assumed to be unique to modern humans, and they developed these behaviors independently, tens of thousands of years before modern humans arrived in this region.

"Peekskill, 1949: What Was Lost, What Remained, What It Means Today". A look back at the late 1940s and its lost opportunities ought to give us pause as we consider our situation today.

While Germans may not be much more interested in Ukraine than Americans, their grandparents told them enough about that last big war to keep a majority from wanting to risk another one.

Rest in power, Curtis Muhammad!

Curtis's beliefs in a cooperative society and bottom up organizing learned from Moses and Ella Baker and a life-time of organizing and struggle, have been embraced by many contemporary movements for social justice today.

Food was a weapon of control by slaveholders, most often used as a mechanism for domination and exploitation. The story of African American food has also been a story about self-determination and ownership.

Why socialists should read Herman Melville’s Moby-Dick.

The Fourth Circuit appeals court finds that Republicans “targeted African Americans with almost surgical precision.”

Driver-owned apps could end Uber’s exploitative reign over the ride-share market.

From Halt and Catch Fire to The Americans, some of "the best television of the moment is mining the fairly recent past in a meaningful way." Critic Meghan Lewit on what nostalgia for the 1980s and '90s might tell us about who we are now.