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In a powerful new film, director Katherin Hervey explores a program at San Quentin prison that pairs inmates with ‘surrogate victims’ as a form of therapy

Progressives are told to keep quiet until after the election — meanwhile, corporate Dems are blasting out divisive ideological messages that could demoralize Democratic voters and depress turnout.

Marches and demonstrations have been held nationwide demanding justice for the 29-year-old father of six, who is Black.

"Trump's disastrous plan to defund Social Security would eliminate retirement and disability benefits by 2023," said Sen. Bernie Sanders. "That may make sense to the billionaires at Trump's country club, but it makes zero sense to me."

Changes to the guild’s cash-strapped health plan could force thousands of seniors off their coverage in the middle of a pandemic.

I continue to seek healing in the kitchen, the way I recover from the churning news cycle of sickness and police violence.

“Fanning the flames of racial animosity lies at the core of Trump’s election strategy, as it did in 2016.” This is why when activists say, “white supremacy is on the ballot” and “anti-Black racism is on the ballot” in 2020, they are dead right.

Students of color received instrumental interactions geared at conditioning them to become obedient at all times, to navigate white supremacy without challenging it.

Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez is pushing to kick military recruiters out of high schools and off Twitch. And she’s right: the military’s recruitment strategy of preying on low-income and working-class students is grotesque.