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Dirty Laundry: An Investigation
Hidden from the public and overlooked by regulators, immigrant workers in the laundry industry face a litany of hazards and abuse. Our six-month investigation reveals the extent of their exploitation.
The Apocalyptic Baldwin
I Am Not Your Negro shows how James Baldwin became disillusioned about the possibility of any peaceful resolution to racism, but underplays the force of his internationalist and anti-capitalist perspective.
How the Slants Reclaimed Their Name
Simon Tam, frontman of the Asian-American dance-rock band, says the recent Supreme Court ruling allowing the group to keep their name affirms that “ultimately communities should be able to determine what’s best for themselves.”
When Privatization Means Segregation: Setting the Record Straight on School Vouchers
Trump’s Department of Education is proposing to take school vouchers nationwide. But this policy has an ugly segregationist history that “school choice” advocates can’t escape.
Birmingham’s Fight For a Living Wage
A leading organizer describes how low-wage workers and faith-based allies are fighting to raise their city’s minimum wage—even as state legislators try to stop them.
Mississippi Autoworkers Mobilize
A standoff in the deep South between a black working-class community and a global auto giant reflects a broader anti-Trump resistance emerging in the labor movement.
It Gets Wetter
Kim Stanley Robinson’s New York 2140 refuses the typical binary of climate change fiction, offering hope for a future somewhere in between victory or ruin.
The Next Operation Dixie
Three labor organizers talk about their work combating racism and fighting for workers’ rights in the South.
A People’s Mayor
On June 6, Chokwe Antar Lumumba won 93 percent of the vote to become mayor of Jackson, Mississippi. Jackson, a city that is 80 percent black, with 31 percent of its population living in poverty, is the capital of a …
Like the Weather
In his quietly devastating book Another Day in the Death of America, Gary Younge argues that all Americans, not just the ones who pull the trigger, are complicit in gun violence.
Namibia’s Monuments to Genocide
In many Namibian cities, monuments to the twentieth century’s first genocide still stand, and have become a key battleground for activists demanding reparations from Germany for its colonial-era crimes.
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