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The King we rarely talk about fought to remake America’s political and economic system from the ground up.

Sixty-year-old Keith Hunter lived in St. James, Louisiana, for roughly 27 years, and during that time, he watched as the sugarcane farms gave way to oil storage tanks and as a railroad terminal was being built down the road, all visible from his front yard.

We won't stop the killings until we address all of the causes.

Modernist Cuisine's next project will attempt to analyze all styles of pizza, try them all and see what works and what doesn’t and why. The goal is to produce “the most comprehensive pizza cookbook in the world.”

Officially, the United States doesn't have a secret police, but in actuality it has an abundance of them.

Pension-fund activism is a dead-end. Organizing and empowering workers is still the only way to revive the labor movement.

In “No Good Read Goes Unpunished,” the 633rd episode of The Simpsons, the longest-running scripted series in TV history finally acknowledged that there is something problematic about the way it has portrayed Apu Nahasapeemapetilon for the past three decades.

Rank-and-file teachers denounced the Oklahoma Education Association (OEA) for collaborating with school officials and the media to encourage a back-to-work movement to end the strike.

While the term divides us now, its history dates back to a time when mineworkers battled big coal – similar to teachers standing up for funding.

How a determined, bipartisan group of House and Senate staffers bucked congressional dysfunction and helped steer a landmark child welfare bill to final passage.