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The image of a white woman calling police on Black people put the lie to the myth of racial innocence

Born in Brooklyn in 1947, the oldest son of folk icon Woody Guthrie and professional dancer Marjorie Mazia Guthrie, Arlo grew up surrounded by folk legends — Pete Seeger, Sonny Terry, Brownie McGhee, Ramblin’ Jack Elliott, to name a few.

I sincerely plead with my colleagues, to surrender the artificial constructs that measure achievement and greet the children where they are, not where we think they “should be.”

Rebellion in 2020 – The fury only grows

A fascinating and timely history of how science developed via the achievement of pursuing only observation and experiment (not politics).

Nelson is emblematic of the new rising labor movement—one increasingly defined, unlike that of the past, by women and so-called women’s work.

"We should have been prepared to start inoculating millions of people the day a vaccine was approved. This is a massive policy failure."

“If you want people to do the right thing you have to make it easy, and we’ve made it hard.”

The corporate media never challenge the underlying and pernicious myth that anti-racist struggle is a zero-sum game in which the oppressed gain at the expense of other non-elite sectors of the population.

Wednesday’s victory is the result of five years of mass protest marches by Argentina’s grassroots women’s movement, which began as a Twitter campaign against gender violence.