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April 23, 2022

Integrity Always Pays

Yarri Kamara Africa is a Country

On justice, impunity and ridicule: the historic outcome of the 2022 trial in Burkina Faso against Thomas Sankara’s killers.

April 23, 2022

‘We Will Prevail’: A Conversation With Cuba’s President Miguel Díaz-Canel

Manolo De Los Santos People's Dispatch

Cuba continues to face great challenges, and many problems remain to be solved. Yet it’s clear that Díaz-Canel is leading a renewal of the Cuban Revolution in a process that seeks to face many complex challenges by empowering local leaders.

April 23, 2022

The Climate Justice Movement Must Be Anti-War: Notes From Antiwar Organizers

Jasmine Butler Power Shift Network

The direct environmental impacts of global military operations carried out by just one nation are enormous, and these impacts only get worse when we include other nations’ military operations as well.

April 23, 2022

Alabama’s Warrior Met Coal and Wall Street Greed

Braxton Wright Facing South

This month marks one year since 1,100 members of the United Mine Workers of America went on strike at Warrior Met Coal in Alabama following the failure of the union and company to agree on a labor contract. The strike continues today.

April 23, 2022

Sanders Opposes Compete Bill, Citing Billions in Corporate Giveaways

Bernie Sanders Vermont Business Magazine

We are debating legislation to provide some $53 billion in corporate welfare with no strings attached to the highly profitable micro-chip industry.

April 23, 2022

Southern LGBTQ Advocates Respond To Hate-Mongering Laws

Elisha Brown Facing South

LGBTQ advocates say it's clear that Republicans are using these bills to fire up their base and win votes ahead of the November midterms.

April 22, 2022

Domino Effect

Dee Allen Oneblackboylikethat Review

Oakland California poet Dee Allen celebrates the toppling of old idols on public statues, awaiting further movement of the Domino Effect.

April 22, 2022

Addressing Climate Change Also Means Addressing the Child Care Crisis

Mary King, Ito Peng, Rianne Mahon Inequality

4 children sitting and squatting observing something in nature on the ground.

This Earth Day, we don’t have to look too far to find examples of public policy investments in our future.

Astrophysicist Breaks Down the Origins of Life

April 22, 2022

An astrophysicist and a molecular and cell biology expert discuss what we know, what we don’t, and how we’re trying to find out more about how life arose on Earth and whether it might exist elsewhere.

Fiddler's Journey to the Big Screen | Documentary

April 22, 2022

Narrated by Jeff Goldblum, Fiddler's Journey to the Big Screen captures the humor and drama of director Norman Jewison's quest to recreate the lost world of Jewish life in Tsarist Russia and re-envision the beloved stage hit as a wide-screen epic. In theaters.