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Releasing the carbon stored in vulnerable ecosystems could push global warming past 1.5 degrees Celsius

Martin Luther King Jr.’s vision of a racially integrated America might still be far off. But some cities are finally atoning for past racial sins and enacting policies to dismantle segregation

Manchin abandoned single parents, unable to afford child care, to poverty. He threw seniors, struggling to pay for prescriptions and health care, under the bus.

The former criminal prosecution team investigating the Flint water crisis was building a racketeering case against state officials. Then the team was dismantled.

Today's labor upsurge could simply evaporate, but it's also possible that we're at the dawn of a new era, one in which the working underclass is drawn, like the industrial workers of the 1930s, into the mainstream and the labor movement is empowered.

King spent his last birthday organizing poor people of all races against immoral spending priorities. We need that revolution today.

The Vice President has constitutional rights, too. By a quirk of history, the plot against America is now also a plot against a Black woman’s right to vote.

“Any analysis of race that artificially divorces it from class & racial capitalism leads us once again down a dead-end path of a little bit more for some but nothing for most of us.” - Barbara Ransby

From Mongolian barbecue to Russian dressing, you can’t tell a food’s origin by its name.

The fact that Black Americans are still fighting the same battles against voter suppression, inequality and the right to have a dream almost 54 years after his death is the most accurate measure of what this nation thinks about Martin Luther King.