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  1. ‘Against All Odds’ Is Required Viewing for White People Harmony Bryant, 13, and Jayla Bryant, 10, ride their bikes in their neighborhood along Hillrod Lane on Aug. 5, 2014 in Kettering, Maryland. The Bryants were part of an expanding black middle class that was accumulating wealth in Prince George's County but the housing crash stripped more than half the value from their home. (Photo by Michel du Cille/The Washington Post via Getty Images)
    1 Jan 2021 … “Structural racism” has become a buzzword in white progressive circles. But every time I push a white writer to break down the meaning behind the words without success, or I see a Black Lives Matter sign in an apartment window Continue reading
  2. Saul Alinsky, Who? Saul D. Alinsky, Chicago, who headed up the formation of FIGHT—Freedom, Integration, God, Honor. April 1967. (AP Photo)
    2 Feb 2012 … A closer look at the man behind Newt Gingrich's misinformation. Continue reading
  3. Chris Hedges on Capitalism’s ‘Sacrifice Zones’
    7 Jul 2012 … Exploring parts of America "that have been destroyed for quarterly profit." Continue reading
  4. In Other News: The Arctic is Melting — Enough Said On July 12, 2011, crew from the US Coast Guard Cutter Healy retrieved a canister dropped by parachute from a C-130, which brought supplies for some mid-mission fixes. The ICESCAPE mission, or "Impacts of Climate on Ecosystems and Chemistry of the Arctic Pacific Environment," is NASA's two-year shipborne investigation to study how changing conditions in the Arctic affect the ocean's chemistry and ecosystems. (Photo by NASA/Kathryn Hansen/ flickr CC 2.0)
    6 Jun 2020 … In Other News: Trump’s Biggest Conflict of Interest To Date? Reporting you might have missed. Continue reading
  5. Most of Those Outraged by Obamacare Enjoy Big Taxpayer Subsidies Themselves Photo of tax return and US treasury check
    11 Nov 2013 … Americans subsidize each other all the time and the biggest beneficiaries are the middle class and the wealthy. Continue reading
  6. 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
  7. ‘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
  8. 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
  9. 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
  10. “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