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The innovative and daring show Orange Is the New Black was a worldwide hit for Netflix, but some of the actors say that they were never fairly compensated.

Pay levels for top U.S. corporate execs have lost any connection to organizational rationality.

How does your brain create a physical sense of self? New insight comes from zapping a region, known as the anterior precuneus, that causes people to feel dissociated from their body.

The global labor force of outsourced and contract workers are early adopters of generative AI — and the most at risk.

A poet sensitive to injustice, W.D. Ehrhart projects a “broken-hearted world without end.”

160,000 actors, members of SAG-AFTRA, are shutting down all industry filming and voice-over production at midnight tonight. They are joining the 11,000 writers, members of the Writers Guild, who have been on strike since May 2.

In an eye-opening documentary The League, director Sam Pollard tells a fully-rounded tale of how Black baseball used to thrive. By the 1940s, baseball was the third largest economic institution in Black communities.

The Roberts two-step. He takes racism, a system of subjugation and social control, and removes the racists. What’s left is the mark of racism - race. A landmark case about the legitimacy of race hierarchy becomes, the use of race in school placement.

The stories of the Palestinians struggling against Israel’s decades-long attempts to expel over 1,000 people from their homes in the Masafer Yatta region of the West Bank — the largest expulsion in the occupied territories since 1967.

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