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Democracy and data centers

Longtime attorney Flint Taylor’s new book tells the story of the People’s Law Collective which grew out of the radical movements of the late 1960s.

More than 70 years after the kidnapping, torture and lynching of 14-year-old Emmett Till in Mississippi, a major new photography exhibit and companion book ask how the world would be different “If Emmett Till Lived.”

ICE breaking, data center shutting and more

At the National Public Housing Museum in Chicago, the past is alive and fighting.

Midwest mid-crisis

The Haymarket Martyrs got a monument of their own in the cemetery where they rest, initiated and funded by working-class people—not “city fathers.

War on the homefront

The Trump regime’s deportation monomania has left far more people dead and wounded than it wants you to know. ICE doesn’t share its violent incidents with the public. So here’s our list.

There’s anger in the land