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A sampling of the vast repertoire that Black folk musicians have contributed to the folk genre and the struggle for freedom and justice. Leon Bibb, Harry Belafonte, Paul Robeson, Odetta, Eric Bibb, Dr. Bernice Johnson Reagon, Toshi Reagon, to start..

In the postwar-Cold War period U.S. corporations used anti-communist hysteria to attack the labor movement. Salt of the Earth - tells the story of heroic Mexican American mineworkers, and the International Union of Mine, Mill and Smelter Workers.

During the Great Depression, local, state, and federal policymakers refused to cut and invested. Doesn't the present moment call for similar visionary action for public institutions like CUNY and the people they educate for generations to come?

One thing seems clear: we are not going back to where we were, to business as usual. Greece's former finance minister Yanis Varoufakis and Irish economist David McWilliams on the hope for a global new deal.

Datelines China, Venezuela, Kerala, Guatemala, Italy, Canada, Bolivia, Russia, Sudan, Sri Lanka

The pandemic has exposed the bitter terms of our racial contract, which deems certain lives of greater value than others.

"We're facing the biggest economic crisis since the Great Depression—subsidizing the insurers is not going to cut it."

The unity task forces could have a big hand in shaping Democratic policy in 2020. Here’s who’s on them.

A veteran of Afghanistan suggests to us all that, in a country and world besieged by the coronavirus, perhaps it’s truly time to come up with a new definition of patriotism.

The pandemic inflames inequalities throughout the country