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There are more communities living in poverty across U.S. metropolitan areas than there were four decades ago — and the neighborhoods that were already poor have even less now.

Only if the screams and tears and protests shake the very conscience of this nation can we hope for a better society on the other side of this

These Cicero workers are joining a growing chorus of essential workers around the country at places like Amazon, Walmart, and Target who are demanding stronger protections on the job amidst an ever worsening COVID-19 crisis

One of the nation’s most respected public defender nonprofits is unionizing, the latest in a surge of union drives at prominent nonprofits across the country.

In an unusual move, Netflix, Amazon, Hulu, HBO, Starz and other major Hollywood players are using their corporate social media accounts to take a stand and support the Black Lives Matter movement

Police treatment of two CNN reporters at a George Floyd protest shows the US has opposite systems of justice – one for white people, one for people of color

Organized labor throughout the city is banding together in solidarity against police violence in the aftermath of Floyd’s death.

This Pan-Africanism is, at its core, a people’s movement for the liberation of humanity from the exploitation of capitalism and imperialism.

This strategy of economic and social reconstruction necessarily involves not only equitable treatments of gender exclusion and reproduction, but social control or democratic governance for innovation, manufacturing, and the core “commanding heights”

Trump’s childish nuclear gambling and obsessive jingoism have combined in a strategy that could end arms control as we know it. Trump is seeking to end the Obama-era nuclear arms treaty with Russia, and for election purposes, blame it on the Chinese.