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The National Labor Relations Act still functions, just barely, for Starbucks workers. Employees at fast-food franchises face even worse odds under federal labor law.

The rise of the baron illustrates the failures of our approach to food policy better than a dry description of policies ever could. For example, the story of the Grain Barons tells the history of the Farm Bill and how it has corrupted the food system

Davis viewed his confrontation with HUAC and the University of Michigan as an opportunity. He willingly risked both his freedom and his career to expose and perhaps even put an end to the establishment’s willingness to quash left political dissent.

AFL-CIO report finds that workers of color are dying on the job at increasingly higher rates. Black workers’ job fatality rate is the highest it’s been in nearly 15 years. Latino workers continue to face the greatest risk of dying on the job.

Over 80 years after its discovery, LSD may finally have found a medical application. A new study shows that it is highly effective at treating generalised anxiety disorder for up to 12 weeks with just a single dose. And it is fast acting.

Mumia Abu-Jamal tells New York City students they’re on the right side of history by deciding ‘not to be silent and to speak out’

Environmental Justice Wins (in 1997), School Integration Loses (1959), Wrist Slap for Torturers (2004), Pete Seeger’s Birthday (1919), No Place to Be Somebody Opens (1969), National Conference on Lynching (1919), ‘We Don’t Want to Radiate!’ (1979)

Unionization at Volkswagen's Chattanoooga plant shows a "just transition" could be possible, even in the anti-union South. That's great news for climate politics.

The United Auto Workers union announced it reached a last-minute tentative agreement with truck and bus manufacturer Daimler Truck, averting a potential strike of more than 7,000 workers.

Congo Square Theatre presents How I Learned What I Learned by August Wilson. Harry Lennix is featured in this one-man autobiographical play about growing up in Pittsburgh and moving through the experiences that would form him as a man and an artist.