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The president has gone nuclear against federal union jobs — historically African Americans’ ladder to economic equality.

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Dr. King was arrested 29 times and assaulted by the police on many occasions.

MMA used to be home to oddballs unified by a love of beating each other up inside cages. But since Donald Trump’s first presidency, the UFC has rebranded the sport as a refuge for the “anti-woke sports fan,” while breaking unions and censoring the me

In 1970, US postal workers won collective bargaining rights with an illegal strike. If lawsuits to stop Trump’s attacks on the federal workforce fail, that kind of militancy may be the only way for federal workers to retain their own union rights.

“They’re all part of the same industry. It’s not necessarily who is taking jobs from whom, it's the same industry. No one is stealing from anybody. There’s shrinkage on both sides of the border.”

Astronomer Carl Sagan asserted that ‘Extraordinary claims require extraordinary evidence.’ What precisely does that mean? And does the evidence of life on a distant planet recently detected by the James Webb Space Telescope meet that challenge?

Walden Bello’s memoir wrestles with tough questions of political strategy and radical ethics in a world full of uprisings, wars, obscene inequality, and aggressive counter-revolutionary movements.

Black women are rejecting narratives that suggest their lack of visibility since November 5 translates into inaction.

There are moments in history when liberatory movements are ascendant, and moments when we are constrained. Staying mobilized in these moments of constraint or backlash is critical.