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President Trump has cut hundreds of thousands of jobs from the federal work force, disproportionately affecting Black employees.

Today on TAP: Will the destruction of the Centers for Disease Control finally push the Republican Congress to constrain Trump’s science deniers?

Trump is looking to consolidate his populist base without challenging corporate power or addressing inequalities.

Big Tech and civilization

Spike Lee’s Highest 2 Lowest attempts to remake a beloved Akira Kurosawa film about the injustices of a class-stratified society all while sidestepping class. Even Denzel Washington can’t save this misfire.

As unions that represent nearly 400,000 workers across the city, we’ve proudly united behind Mamdani’s agenda to build a city where workers can truly thrive.

No Job Is Worth Dying For (1991), Racist Terror in Mississippi (1875), Max Roach Lays Down the Freedom Suite (1960), ‘Never Again’ (2000), ‘They Shall Beat Their Swords Into Plowshares’ (1980)

If we let Bob Kennedy, MAHA madness, and his billionaire patrons redefine America as a place where only the strong survive, we will lose not just our health but our souls.

Food superstitions are believed to bring luck, prosperity, health, wealth, and a range of other supposed benefits.

The battles that birthed these labor holidays united native-born and immigrant workers in an extraordinary alliance to demand an eight-hour workday at a time when American workers toiled an average of 10 or more hours daily, six days a week.