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  1. The 2016 Election Exposed Deep-Seated Racism. Where Do We Go From Here? A "No Racism" sign and a "Trump Pence" poster at a Trump campaign rally
    11 Nov 2016 … This wasn’t an election. It was an exposure. That was a common thread of the 2016 Facing Race conference in Atlanta, Georgia, where more than 2,000 activists, community organizers and journalists from across the country gathered for two-and-a-half days to Continue reading
  2. ‘Life on the Plantation’, January 12, 2007
    1 Jan 2007 … Bill delivered this speech to the Media Reform Conference in Memphis, Tennessee on January 12, 2007. Continue reading
  3. White Supremacist Chaos in Charlottesville Is Just the Beginning Counterprotesters gathered in the streets of downtown Charlottesville on Saturday, Aug. 12, 2017 to stand against the "Unite the Right" rally, which was later cancelled by police. (Photo by Adele Stan)
    8 Aug 2017 … Arriving in downtown Charlottesville about a half-hour before the scheduled noon start time for the Unite the Right rally on Saturday, it was clear that violence was inevitable. I rode past a throng of men with semiautomatic rifles slung across Continue reading
  4. The Week That Workers Won (At Least a Little) Protesters rally for an increase in the minimum wage on the Great Western Staircase at the Capitol on Tuesday, June 17, 2014, in Albany, N.Y. Several hundred fast-food workers and other low-wage employees from around New York gathered to pressure lawmakers to raise the minimum wage from $8 to $10.10 an hour and let local cities raise it even higher. (AP Photo/Mike Groll)
    7 Jul 2014 … Today’s economy doesn’t contain a lot of good news for working people, yet the last few days have seen some notable gains. Continue reading
  5. “Where You Grow Up Matters”
    7 Jul 2013 … The New York Times reports on a new study that shows that income mobility rates are largely dependent on your hometown. Continue reading
  6. Republicans May Finally Get Their Wish to Watch the Affordable Care Act Destroyed
    11 Nov 2014 … What would happen to the eight million Americans who got private insurance through all the exchanges in their first open enrollment period? Continue reading
  7. Unsanitized: Miracle on Pennsylvania Avenue The 2012 Capitol Christmas Tree is seen after Speaker of the House Rep. John Boehner (R-Ohio) lit it up in Washington, DC. (Photo by Alex Wong/Getty Images)
    12 Dec 2020 … Congress, after nine months of dithering, passed a COVID relief bill, attached to a year-end omnibus that funds the government until next September. Into all this walks Donald Trump. Continue reading
  8. The Year FDR Sought to Make America ‘Fairly Radical’ June 27, 1936: President Franklin D. Roosevelt declares war on "Princes of Privilege" during his speech accepting the Democratic presidential nomination at Franklin Field in Philadelphia before an audience of more than 100,000. Roosevelt pledged a battle to the finish to wrestle the freedom of the nation from "royalists of the economic dynasties."
    6 Jun 2016 … Accepting the Democratic nomination for a second presidential term 80 years ago this summer in Philadelphia, President Franklin D. Roosevelt delivered the most radical speech ever given by an American president. He called for a political and economic revolution against Continue reading
  9. Playing for Change: Peace Through Music Various musicians from around the world sing Ben E. King's 'Stand By Me'
    10 Oct 2008 … Bill Moyers talks with Mark Johnson, the producer of a remarkable documentary about the simple but transformative power of music. Also: Economist James K. Galbraith Continue reading
  10. The Woman Giving Refugee Kids Free Lawyers Alexandra Rizio is an advocate for refugee children, defending them from deportation. She is a senior staff attorney at Safe Passage Project. (Photo courtesy of YES! magazine.
    3 Mar 2017 … This post originally appeared at YES! magazine. Alexandra Rizio Defending children from deportation Alexandra Rizio has long fought for refugees in her professional life, starting as a volunteer with the Refugee and Immigrant Fund in Queens, New York. Today, she Continue reading