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“We are also doing this to demand freedom,” said one of the workers. “We’re not treated like people. We’re treated like animals.”

As I show in my new book, “The First Emancipation,” it is in France where a national government first outlawed slavery – and indeed made steps toward racial equality.

Boots Riley’s remarkably easy confidence and visual flair in I Love Boosters is a tonic in an era of boring CGI slop. He’s one of the most compelling filmmakers working today.

They say crackdown, we say throwdown

The world’s largest advertising conglomerate has proposed merging with the company that has built detailed profiles on every American.

On the Way to a Major People’s Victory (1979), An Ideological Earthquake (1956), The Novelist Who Started the Civil War, Sort Of (1851), Standing Up for Civil Rights Isn’t Easy (1966), Municipal Workers Flex Their Muscles, But It Doesn’t Help (1971)

Long after the founding, many ordinary Americans saw the Revolution as ongoing—an unfinished fight for freedom and equality.

Despite aggressive anti-union climates, union membership grew in a number of southern states last year. We offer three articles on this trend: one on the south generally, one on Virginia and one on Texas.

The health supplement spirulina is now a mainstream food dye but critics are pointing to contamination concerns. The FDA, based on a petition from industry, ruled that spirulina “certification was not necessary for the protection of public health.”

Since the Trump administration imposed an oil blockade in January, the Caribbean island nation has been in the midst of a humanitarian and economic crisis.