The High Probability of Being Poor

Matt Bruenig The American Prospect
A slight majority of people still spend at least one year of their adult life in poverty, and for some demographic groups, almost everyone experiences poverty at some point.

50 Years Later, the Untold History of the March on Washington & MLK’s Most Famous Speech

Amy Goodman/Juan Gonzalez Democracy Now!
I think we’ve often forgotten the economic issues that were really central to the march, in hindsight. That’s something that we need to remember as we remember this march, that it really was—and I think had a very profound effect on shifting the national conversation, even within the civil rights movement itself, toward a major focus on the connections between racial equality and economic justice.

Trying to Inspire a New Generation

Trip Gabriel The New York Times
A lineup of civil rights heroes, current movement leaders, labor leaders and Democratic officials addressed a vast crowd that stretched east from the Lincoln Memorial to the knoll of the Washington Monument.

The Story of Gershwin, Harlem and the Blues

Israeli pianist Astrith Baltsan performs Gershwin's Rhapsody in Blue, explaining the inspiration of the music in the young Gershwin's fascination with Harlem blues.

Deport the Statue

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Claiming and Teaching the 1963 March on Washington

By Bill Fletcher Zinn Education Project
In reality, the demand for jobs was not a throwaway line designed to get trade union support. Instead it reflected the growing economic crisis affecting black workers.

Nickel and Dimed: Working Class Heroes

Ed Rampell Hollywood Progressive
Since the collapse of capitalism in 2008 there has been a rebirth of left-leaning theatre, and Nickel and Dimed is one of this dissident theatrical wave’s finest, most compelling dramas.