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What does a decolonization movement look like, and how is it informed by both Black and Indigenous traditions of resistance?

Robert Peoples remembers when African Americans won the right to vote in Alabama back in 1965. More than 50 years after the passage of the Voting Rights Act, Robert Peoples cannot vote in the state of Alabama.

Students tend to measure fair compensation on two scales. How many years of training and/or dollars of tuition did a worker have to invest to become “qualified” for the job? And how important is that worker’s labor to the rest of society?

Japanese media reported 100 cases of COVID-19 among U.S. military personnel following “reports of troops taking part in parties in downtown areas and beaches around July 4 to celebrate Independence Day.”

Employee survey platforms allow employers to sort groups of employees by the departments, locations, and demographics most likely to unionize.

Disneyland in Anaheim, California, is packed with visitors. But the company refuses to provide COVID-19 testing to its employees.

Earlier this week, four labor leaders voted against including Medicare for All in the Democratic Party platform.

The Disney Plus visual album is an opulent portrait of Black pride

The planned closing of Mercy Hospital underscores the dramatic loss of maternity services in Chicago over the past year — reflecting the failure of local government agencies to adequately fund critical services in vulnerable communities.

Policing is not the only kind of state violence. In the mid-twentieth century, city governments, backed by federal money, demolished hundreds of Black neighborhoods in the name of urban renewal.