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King spent his last birthday organizing poor people of all races against immoral spending priorities. We need that revolution today.

The Vice President has constitutional rights, too. By a quirk of history, the plot against America is now also a plot against a Black woman’s right to vote.

“Any analysis of race that artificially divorces it from class & racial capitalism leads us once again down a dead-end path of a little bit more for some but nothing for most of us.” - Barbara Ransby

From Mongolian barbecue to Russian dressing, you can’t tell a food’s origin by its name.

The fact that Black Americans are still fighting the same battles against voter suppression, inequality and the right to have a dream almost 54 years after his death is the most accurate measure of what this nation thinks about Martin Luther King.

A hundred years ago a low-key event in Dublin Castle marked the handover of British rule to the new Irish Provisional Government . This Is an account of that day.

After striking for 10 weeks, student workers at Columbia University have a tentative agreement that members will vote on, but they also have a stronger, more democratic union.

“Negroes have benefited from a limited change that was emotionally satisfying but materially deficient... Jobs are harder to create than voting rolls.”

Rhode Island has long been one of the most corrupt and machine-driven states in America. A new left movement is trying to change that — but they can’t agree on how.

We need to address the needs of students—and parents, and teachers. One size does not fit all, and race complicates the challenge.