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  1. Poet Kyle Dargan on the Affluence and Austerity of DC
    4 Apr 2013 … Poet Kyle Dargan talks about his efforts to reconcile his disparate cultural environments through poetry. Continue reading
  2. Why Does Essential Work Pay So Little and Cost So Much?
    7 Jul 2020 … The pandemic has exposed certain deep and unexamined assumptions about the nature and value of work in the United States. Continue reading
  3. America’s New Working Class Demands Respect NEW YORK, NY - NOVEMBER 10: Low wage workers and supporters protest for a $15 an hour minimum wage on November 10, 2015 in New York, United States. In what organizers are calling a National Day of Action for $15 and hour minimum wage, thousands of people took to the streets across the country to stage protests in front of businesses that are paying some of their workers the minimum wage. Home care workers, employees in retail and fast food restaurants say that the current minimum is not a living wage. (Photo by Spencer Platt/Getty Images)
    4 Apr 2016 … My father was a machinist at a steel factory for 29 years. A white male who wore a hard hat to work, carried his lunch in a pail and washed his dark blue uniform at the end of every day, Continue reading
  4. What Ben Carson Should Learn About Housing Segregation HUD Secretary nominee Ben Carson waits for his meeting with incoming Senate Banking, Housing and Urban Affairs Committee chairman Sen. Mike Crapo (R-ID). (Photo By Bill Clark/CQ Roll Call)
    12 Dec 2016 … President-elect Donald Trump proposes to nominate Ben Carson to head the Department of Housing and Urban Development (HUD). Mr. Carson has expressed opposition to the Obama administration’s new HUD requirement that cities and suburbs develop plans to end their segregation Continue reading
  5. Activists to Watch: Aaron Bartley Aaron Bartley rallies for PUSH's energy efficiency campaign in Buffalo, New York
    10 Oct 2013 … Historian Peter Dreier explains why Bartley is a part of a new wave of grassroots activists changing America. Continue reading
  6. More Than 4,000 Black People Were Lynched in the South. Where Are Their Monuments? A scene from 'Abbeville,' a video about the commemoration of a lynching that happened in South Carolina 100 years ago.
    8 Aug 2017 … Recent events in Charlottesville have renewed the debate around whether to take down Confederate memorials and statues, but the latest short film from the Equal Justice Institute’s Lynching in America project shows that much more is needed to truly confront Continue reading
  7. Unsanitized: The Battle of Los Angeles Los Angeles
    1 Jan 2021 … The nation’s biggest county has the biggest COVID outbreak. Plus, a memorial to the dead. Continue reading
  8. Morning Reads: Couple Jailed for Soap; Snowden Seeks Asylum Again
    12 Dec 2013 … A roundup of stories we're reading this morning at Moyers & Company HQ... Continue reading
  9. Bernie’s Run Is a New Opening for the Immigrant Rights Movement Bernie Sanders
    5 May 2015 … Senator Sanders needs to articulate a vision that challenges the root causes of migration, while incorporating vulnerable immigrant families into his populist “Political Revolution." Continue reading
  10. The Cost of War, Crisis in Western Sudan, and the Hip Hop Political Conference Wounded troops
    6 Jun 2004 … Some veterans' debilitating injuries are not being reported, possibly to keep Americans from knowing the true human cost of war. And is it too late to stop what some consider to be genocide in Sudan? Continue reading