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I sincerely plead with my colleagues, to surrender the artificial constructs that measure achievement and greet the children where they are, not where we think they “should be.”

Born in Brooklyn in 1947, the oldest son of folk icon Woody Guthrie and professional dancer Marjorie Mazia Guthrie, Arlo grew up surrounded by folk legends — Pete Seeger, Sonny Terry, Brownie McGhee, Ramblin’ Jack Elliott, to name a few.

The image of a white woman calling police on Black people put the lie to the myth of racial innocence

The ideological argument over the future of Israel-Palestine disguises the fact that for the past decade we have been living in a one-state reality.

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FedEx workers at the Memphis World Hub said they were pressured to work faster than they felt was safe.

Under the slick suits and high tension shootouts, America’s favorite thrillers are hiding something.

Wednesday’s victory is the result of five years of mass protest marches by Argentina’s grassroots women’s movement, which began as a Twitter campaign against gender violence.

The corporate media never challenge the underlying and pernicious myth that anti-racist struggle is a zero-sum game in which the oppressed gain at the expense of other non-elite sectors of the population.

“If you want people to do the right thing you have to make it easy, and we’ve made it hard.”