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Occasionally, in politics and social-economic struggles, there occur "moments of rupture," periods of dizzying and dramatic change when hosts of opportunities present themselves and existing arrangements of power are radically altered.

A new collection explores the early twentieth-century artists and institutions that made the Black Chicago Renaissance possible.

This article by Michael Goldfield and Cody R. Melcher introduces a new “Moments of Rupture” series from Organizing Upgrade, meant to draw lessons from prior key historic moments for organizers today.

In Priya Fielding-Singh’s book “How the Other Half Eats: The Untold Story of Food and Inequality in America,” the author argues that increasing access to food requires addressing underlying structural problems.

The Kaiser Permanente partnership finds itself in crisis as 34,000 Kaiser Permanente healthcare workers prepare to strike on Monday, in what would be the largest walkout in this fall’s strike wave.

Other rightwingers piled on Cruz's criticism of Big Bird: ‘Brainwashing children’

FedEx’s less costly contractor drivers were supposed to give it an edge. But labor shortages are hobbling services.

It is not too much to say that the Republican Party has cleared itself a path to nullifying the votes of millions of Americans.

In Pembroke, the well-intended efforts of mostly white nature conservationists overlook one thing: The township’s Black farming community has never fully supported them. Now, a generations-old way of life is threatened by the push for conservation.

There is “little evidence” that higher payments to Medicare Advantage are justified because their enrollees are sicker than the average senior.