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American singer, acclaimed actor of stage and screen, political activist and civil rights campaigner Paul Robeson rehearses at the piano on July 22, 1958.
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Culture & Media

Graphic Biography Highlights the Life of Actor and Activist Paul Robeson

“Ballad of an American” tells the tale of Paul Robeson’s role in the earliest civil rights movement to a new generation.
by
John Pietaro,
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January 5, 2021
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Portrait of Josh White, Cafe Society (Downtown), New York, New York, circa June 1946.
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Culture & Media

New Book Digs Into Government Files to Keep Alive Memory of Radical Folk Artists

“The Folk Singers and the Bureau” is a vast treatise on the sad interplay between the red-baiters and the folkies.
by
Paul Buhle,
Truthout
December 20, 2020
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Protesters block an entrance to Ineos plant on Bo’Ness Road on on October 23, 2020, in Grangemouth, Scotland.
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Culture & Media

New Book Highlights Need for Solidarity for Humans to Survive Global Collapse

Mark Schuller’s “Humanity’s Last Stand” offers concrete strategies for confronting global collapse.
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Michael Lynn,
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December 13, 2020
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A woman walks by a projection of flames and commentary on the side of the Trump International Hotel organized by activists in protest of President Donald Trump's response to science and climate change in the face of devastating wild fires burning throughout the United States on October 21, 2020, in Washington, D.C.
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Environment & Health

An Effective Green New Deal Must Be Global. This Is What It Could Look Like.

Noam Chomsky and Robert Pollin’s latest book gives us a concrete plan to deal with this truly existential threat.
by
C.J. Polychroniou,
Global Policy
October 25, 2020
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Black Panther Party members demonstrate, fists raised outside the New York City courthouse, New York, New York, on April 11, 1969.
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Racial Justice

For Black Panthers, Radicalization Entailed Self-Transformation

“The Brother You Choose” offers a wealth of insights into the Black Panthers’ organizing practices.
by
Arun Kundnani,
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October 5, 2020
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A woman is carried away by police
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Environment & Health

Local-Level Fossil Fuel Fights Face Violent Retaliation From Industry

If fossil fuel companies can’t sway governments to crush resistance, they go to the courts, the media or the clergy.
by
Eve Ottenberg,
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April 27, 2020
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A woman holds a sign reading "It's not revitalization it's GENTRIFICATION" written on cardboard
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Economy & Labor

Radical Urban Planning Can Fight Gentrification With Affordable Housing

Gentrification isn’t inevitable.
by
Valerie Schloredt,
YES! Magazine
February 24, 2020
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A pedestrian passes by a row of boarded up houses in east Baltimore, Maryland, on August 8, 2017.
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Racial Justice

How Wall Street and Real Estate Exploited Anti-Housing Discrimination Policies

A new book explains how federal policies intended to address racism wound up enabling predatory real estate practices.
by
Julia Thomas,
The Indypendent
February 22, 2020
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A still from the film The First Rainbow Coalition (2019).
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Racial Justice

New Film Showcases How the Rainbow Coalition’s Struggle for Justice Lives On

Today’s grassroots community organizers and activists are continuing the work of the Rainbow Coalition.
by
Bobby Vanecko,
Truthout
February 16, 2020
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A view of an employee dormitory equipped with a suicide-prevention net is seen in Foxconn Technology Group's industrial complex on October 16, 2010, in Shenzhen of Guangdong Province, China.
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Economy & Labor

Here’s What Workers of the Global South Endure to Create Corporate Wealth

The cheaper the wages of the workers in the Global South, the greater the gross profit margins of corporations.
by
Eve Ottenberg,
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January 5, 2020
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