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Education is struggle. Of the books under review, one shows community college students pioneering reading methods and expanding canons that came late to the Ivies. The second looks at a key figure in the African American intellectual tradition.

Fed up with low wages and injuries, more than 1,000 HelloFresh kitchen factory workers in Colorado and California are unionizing with UNITE HERE.

About 815,000 jobs have been lost in the American public sector since the start of the pandemic and job recovery in the public sector has lagged behind the private sector.

Working in US public sector feels untenable for many amid lack of benefits, low pay and lack of general investment.

More than 1.2 million Americans are currently displaced from their homes because of climate change impacts—including increasingly severe storms, wildfires, and flooding.

The city will decide on a sweeping measure that would limit the size, scope and influence of its police department.

In Vermont, everyone loves clean energy—when it comes from someplace else

After half a century studying the issue, here's lesson number one: Wars are bad and empire is folly.

This award-winning collection of short stories, writes reviewer Simms, "stands within a tradition of writing that’s about the beauty and burden of Black life within oppressive social systems."