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Novelist and writer Toni Morrison (born Chloe Ardelia Wofford, February 18, 1931 – August 5, 2019), received the Nobel Prize in Literature in 1993. Here is the speech she gave on that occasion.

Greenhouse, a former labor reporter and foreign correspondent for the New York Times, builds a persuasive case that the inability of workers to engage in collective bargaining has markedly shifted power to corporations.

She should be remembered for the sharp clarity of her social vision, as well as for her gorgeous words.

Redirecting small portion of subsidies would unleash clean energy revolution, says report

The APA said that people with mental illness are being stigmatized.

“The Nightingale,” from Jennifer Kent, looks at the effects of sexual assault in 1820s Tasmania. Critics say it is too graphic; defenders say it reflects historical truths.

Trump and Mass Shootings; Policing; Science Purge; Fear of Chinese-Americans; Cheney Judges Tribes; Black Metal vs Fascism; Trump-Lovin' Teens

"The choices made by white men, who are prepared to abandon their humanity out of fear of black men and women, suggest the true horror of lost status." Article by Toni Morrison written Nov. 2016. We mourn her passing today, August 6, 2019

Today, with the US decision to walk away from the 1987 Intermediate-Range Nuclear Force (INF) negotiated with the Soviet Union, we are once again staring into the abyss of one of the most perilous nuclear challenges since the height of the Cold War.

Association of Flight Attendants president Sara Nelson explained in April that it is “not the solutions to climate change that kills jobs,” but climate change itself.