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Taxes must be increased for the ultra-rich as a “strategic precondition to reducing inequality and resuscitating democracy,” Gabriela Bucher, executive director of Oxfam International said.

Nurses at Mount Sinai South Nassau voted by a majority to join the New York State Nurses Association. The approximately 800 nurses at South Nassau represent the last non-union facility in the entire Mount Sinai health system.

“Honey Cake and Latkes: Recipes from the Old World by the Auschwitz-Birkenau Survivors” was organized by the Auschwitz-Birkenau Memorial Foundation. More than one survivor remembers sustaining fellow-prisoners with vivid descriptions of the foods they’d eaten in their earlier lives.

King called himself a democratic socialist. He believed that America needed a "radical redistribution of economic and political power."

A federal program of subsidized employment would empower workers, strengthen communities, and move us toward a more equitable economy for everyone.

King understood that no single approach would be sufficient to combat the interconnected evils of racism, economic exploitation and militarism.

How nuclear weapons gradually became a key part of international relations.

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