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Joe Biden’s call for unity is a stretch, but that doesn’t mean progress is off the table.

A new book invites us to revisit the world and ideas of one of our great writers, who also served, during the 20th Century, as a one of our society's outstanding voices of conscience and tribunes for justice.

President faces disciplinary hearing after Hollywood union finds he “violated the union’s Constitution”.

Remembering Patrice Lumumba, Marielle Franco and Chico Mendes, and news of new year struggles in four continents

The 70-year nuclear gloom begins to lift on January 22, 2021. The nine countries that have held the world captive to the threat of nuclear war are losing moral ground to 122 smaller countries that approved the world’s first nuclear weapons ban.

The company has also sent anti-union text messages to workers and posted anti-union banners in its facilities in the lead-up to a union election at its Bessemer, Alabama facility.

In a new book, Alicia Garza writes, “We can’t be afraid to establish a base that is larger than the people we feel comfortable with.” “The Purpose of Power: How We Come Together When We Fall Apart.”

Companies now stepping back from his GOP enablers spent years propping them up to boost their bottom line. The biggest prize won by the corporations from Republican policy-making in the Trump era came with the 2017 Tax Cuts and Jobs Act.

Honoring Dr. King: He concluded by promising that “ending poverty will not just be an aspiration, it will be a theory of change to build a new economy that includes everyone.”

The ‘insurrection’ - who dunnit?