Retracing the steps of a Texan lynched in 1921 requires a trip through dark days in state history.
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A throwaway cigarette landed on a pile of cloth. 146 workers died. But this tragedy instigated a movement for workers' rights.
As the holiday has become mainstream, University of Pennsylvania Professor Kristen R. Ghodsee says #IWD has grown further away from its “socialist roots” and has “lost any association with its radical past.”
The threat posed by Trump and the MAGA movement, like the Confederate States, is not “conservative” or even “extremist” but criminally anti-democratic.
The physicist’s refuge from assassins on a British heath changed the course of history, as a new docudrama shows
A century after his birth, EP Thompson’s empathy with those facing scorn and condescension is more relevant than ever. The first paragraph starts: “The working class did not rise like the sun at an appointed time. It was present at its own making.”
This book, writes reviewer Reeves, "ought to be read by anyone interested in equality, and also anyone interested in people, history, God, politics, religion, nationalism, war or love."
The simple reality is that the future of American democracy is as much on the line now as it was in 1866. That was lost in yesterday’s arguments, but should have been central to them.
Award-winning filmmaker Ava DuVernay about her latest feature film, Origin, which explores discrimination in the United States and beyond through a dramatization of the book Caste: The Origins of Our Discontents by Isabel Wilkerson.
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