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Tuberculosis, a largely poor peoples’ disease, has killed more people than smallpox, malaria, the plague, influenza, HIV and AIDS and Ebola combined. Yet the global response has been ineffective and shows a basic lack of respect for human rights.

While primaries are difficult to predict, today’s polls are not just failing, they seem to be doing so in a way that makes progressive candidates of color appear to have less support than they do.

In a new speech, “Building a Global Democratic Movement to Counter Authoritarianism,” Sanders spells out that we must develop a global movement against unaccountable state and corporate power, which are mutually reinforcing.

Contrary to what is often believed, the wage-earning classes are not united but fragmented. In competition with each other, can they be controlled. It is only with the help of the state and in fighting for state power that solidarity can be created.

This is the third report in National Newspaper Publishers Association (NNPA) global news feature series on the history, contemporary realities and implications of the transatlantic slave trade.

And if Anna Smith is any indication, Donald Trump's divisiveness could hurt his entire party.

Kavanaugh bears a pattern of anti-worker adjudication—a stance that inordinately harms women.

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Some cities and states have already moved forward with feasibility studies and business plans for forming their own banks. But the city of Los Angeles faces a barrier to entry that other cities don’t have.