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  1. Study: Refusing to Expand Medicaid Hurts People of Color the Hardest african-american man, homeless
    12 Dec 2013 … A new study shows that poor minorities will make up a disproportionate share of the health insurance "coverage gap." Continue reading
  2. Activists to Watch: Phaedra Ellis-Lamkins
    10 Oct 2013 … Historian Peter Dreier explains why Ellis-Lamkins is a part of a new wave of grassroots activists changing America. Continue reading
  3. The Wage War’s Two Battlegrounds: The Ballot Box and the Board Room fight for $15 protest
    5 May 2015 … The movement toward a living wage is quickly gaining public sympathy and support. Continue reading
  4. The Good Society (Part Two) Los Angeles
    8 Aug 1992 … The second part of The Good Society focuses on Los Angeles and the stories of people who have long recognized the need for cooperative action to benefit the community as a whole. The program features individuals in schools, churches, and Continue reading
  5. It’s Been 25 Years Since Restaurant Workers Got a Raise Waitress Sheila Abramson at Langer's Delicatessen serves customers on February 26, 2013 in Los Angeles, California. (Photo by Kevork Djansezian/Getty Images)
    4 Apr 2016 … Thanks to the efforts of industry groups like the National Restaurant Association -- or "the other NRA," as I like to call them -- which has stymied efforts to raise wages for restaurant workers, April 1 marked the 25th year Continue reading
  6. What Does Paul Ryan Really Mean by the Phrase “Inner City”? Google Ngram Offers a Clue
    3 Mar 2014 … The history of the phrase 'inner city' seems to buttress assertions that it comes with racial connotations. Continue reading
  7. Rigged: How Voter Suppression Threw Wisconsin to Trump "I Voted" stickers at a polling location during the presidential primary vote in Waukesha, Wisconsin, on Tuesday, April 5, 2016. (Photo by Daniel Acker/Bloomberg via Getty Images)
    10 Oct 2017 … You can’t say Andrea Anthony didn’t try. A 37-year-old African-American woman with an infectious smile, Anthony had voted in every major election since she was 18. On Nov. 8, 2016, she went to the Clinton Rose Senior Center, her polling site Continue reading
  8. Martin Luther King Jr.: Remembering a Committed Life MLK
    1 Jan 2014 … Nearly 50 years after his death it is King's words and deeds that live on in the American memory -- not that of the racists who hated him or the Black Power advocates who scorned him. Continue reading
  9. What a Revived Poor People’s Campaign Needs to Do in the Trump Era North Carolina NAACP President, Reverend William J. Barber, 52, poses for a portrait in Raleigh, North Carolina, on Thursday, January 21, 2016. Barber is a vocal spokesman against the State of North Carolina's controversial voter identification law. (Photo by Nikki Kahn/The Washington Post via Getty Images)
    8 Aug 2017 … In 1968, Martin Luther King Jr. and his allies started the Poor People’s Campaign, a movement meant to improve the lives of low-income Americans. But King was assassinated a few months before its political actions officially kicked off, and the Continue reading
  10. The Minimum Wage Doesn’t Apply to Everyone
    7 Jul 2013 … Nearly two million working Americans make even less than the minimum because of various exemptions. Continue reading