How Pandemics End

As the world enters a third year of the coronavirus pandemic, people wonder when and how it will end. History offers important lessons.

When the Levee Breaks feat. John Paul Jones | Playing for Change

“When The Levee Breaks” is an emotionally-charged classic by Led Zeppelin. The song is a rework of the 1929 original release by Kansas Joe Mccoy and Memphis Minnie about the Great Mississippi Flood of 1927; the most destructive river flooding in U.S. history.

The Ottawa Occupation and Canada: a Call to Step Up

John Cartwright Council of Canadians
Millions of Canadians are looking for clear leadership – to build a more united world – in the days and weeks ahead. Let each of us step up and be part of the solution.

In Bessemer and the South, Black Workers Hold the Key

Matthew Cunningham-Cook and Marc D. Bayard The American Prospect
Does the ongoing campaign to unionize the Amazon Bessemer warehouse, where 85 percent of the workers are Black, portend a return to large-scale campaigns in the South?

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The Uneasy Alliance Between Frederick Douglass and White Abolitionists

William G. Thomas III The New York Times
Douglass refused to cede the Constitution to the slaveholders. He insisted the Constitution did not sanction slavery, that natural law and the Constitution assured liberty, and political action would be necessary to destroy slavery and secure freedom