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Spotlight on Cuba, Brazil under Lula, women in struggle

More than 300 graduate student workers at Fordham University’s Arts and Sciences school began a three-day walkout this Monday, resulting in hundreds of canceled classes amid growing frustration with the state of their union contract negotiations with the university.

Reviewer Fazli examines this new History of the Democratic Party, written by a former editor of Dissent magazine.

"We need you to deliver the bold ideas that our generation cannot live without—stop the climate crisis, fight for the rights and dignity of immigrants, impose real gun control—and run on a bold platform that will get our generation out to vote."

The reality seized me that I had been playing much too small as a writer, covering and commenting on society and its systems rather than truly challenging them.

How Ecofascists Are Fueling Racism and Deadly Violence

As momentum builds around efforts to divert public funds to private schools, lawmakers and advocates should recommit to opposing harmful voucher bills and supporting greater investment in public education.

A violent end in a violent time? It's got the world wondering.

125 years after his birth, Paul Robeson, the civil rights titan, remains a role model for battling racism and fascism. The words written on his gravestone: “The artist must elect to fight for freedom or slavery. I have made my choice. I had no alternative.”

Chart-topping calypso singer who supported US civil rights movement and African initiatives dies of congestive heart failure