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Following the historic “Stand Up” strike last fall led by the United Auto Workers, the southern organizing drive has spread like wildfire to encompass 150,000 auto workers at 14 companies across Alabama, South Carolina, Tennessee, and more.

"The TERM Act is necessary because lifetime tenure on the United States Supreme Court leads to a court that is insulated from, and unaccountable to, the American people," said Rep. Hank Johnson, the bill's sponsor.

And You’re Not Going to Like Them

A northern pub landlord confronts locals’ hostility towards Syrian refugees in Loach’s latest – and possibly last – piece of politically trenchant cinema

What the Baltimore bridge disaster taught the nation

New Deal Says Yes/No to Racism (1939), ¡Rachel Corrie, Presente!, Klan Sways A Jury (1964), The Ballot or the Bullet (1964), Jim Crow Shows Who's Boss (1944), If the Shoe of Inhumanity Fits, Wear It (1939), Big Win for Telephone Operators (1919)

Students and faculty members in solidarity with the Palestinian people have found the campus environment alarmingly constrained.

‘I’d love a scathing review’ says novelist Percival Everett. His work triumphed at the Oscars, but he isn’t interested in acclaim. He talks to the Guardian about race, taking on Mark Twain and why there’s nothing worse than preaching to the choir.

Non-tenure-track faculty at Harvard voted 1,094-81 to unionize under Harvard Academic Workers-United Auto Workers.

A hopeful Southern project is helping reclaim lost heritage while building livelihoods, rebuilding old foodways, and rejuvenating land.