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The Poor at the Crossroads

Liz Theoharis TomDispatch
The poor are what Dr. King once called “a new and unsettling force” capable of transforming “our complacent national life.”

Abolition Democracy’s Forgotten Founder

Robin D. G. Kelley Boston Review
While W. E. B. Du Bois praised an expanding penitentiary system, T. Thomas Fortune called for investment in education and a multiracial, working-class movement.