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April 17, 2020

The Black Plague

Keeanga-Yamahtta Taylor The New Yorker

Public officials lament the way that the coronavirus is engulfing black communities. The question is, what are they prepared to do about it?

April 17, 2020

Who Is Essential Now?

Bryce Covert The Nation

Workers at companies that offer poor pay and unsafe working conditions now know they are essential. And many expect to be treated that way.

The Big Lesson From South Korea's Coronavirus Response

April 17, 2020

Testing and tracing were the key to slowing the spread of coronavirus.

What Trump Has Threatened to Do

April 17, 2020

President Trump has repeatedly claimed powers he doesn’t have

RBG Workout | SNL

April 17, 2020

Supreme Court Justice Ruth Bader Ginsburg (Kate McKinnon) invites people to join her workout at home

Chan Chan | Playing For Change

April 17, 2020

This song was popularized by the Buena Vista Social Club project. PFC created this version while on a trip recording and filming music in Cuba in 2015. Cuba, the USA, and the Middle East all get along when the music plays.

Trump Plays Blame Game, Governors Lead

April 17, 2020

President Trump is tied up in knots trying to project power over the states while admitting at his Tuesday briefing that the decisions on when to restart state economies will be made by the governors. #Colbert #StephenAtHome #Monologue

April 17, 2020

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Trump Plays Blame Game, Governors Lead. Chan Chan | Playing For Change. RBG Workout | SNL. What Trump Has Threatened to Do. The Big Lesson From South Korea's Coronavirus Response.

April 16, 2020

The Crime of the Century: Remembering Sacco and Vanzetti 100 Years Later

Michele Fazio Working-Class Perspectives

In the 1920s, Sacco and Vanzetti symbolized the failure of American justice, with massive world-wide protests and a funeral of over 200,000. Yet today they are largely forgotten in the U.S.

April 16, 2020

Dorothy Day’s Radical Faith

Casey Cep The New Yorker

A new book charts the life and legacy of the writer and activist, cofounder of the radical Catholic Worker movement that aimed to aid the poor and whom some hope will be made a saint.