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Director Raoul Peck’s I Am Not Your Negro documentary on legendary American writer James Baldwin will hit theaters on February 3. Before he died of stomach cancer in 1987 at the age of 63, Baldwin was working on the book, “Remember This House,” a story...

Marx wrote these passages nearly 150 years ago, and he was certainly not infallible: in the same letter he suggested optimistically that independence for Ireland might hasten "the social revolution in England." But a great deal of his analysis sounds...

Clockwise from upper left: Amita Lonial, Jessica Anne Bratt, Sarah Lawton, and Amy Sonnie On July 21, the Movement for Black Lives’ National Day of Action, a team of four public librarians with backgrounds in social justice launched a new initiative...

TEACHER COMPLAINS ABOUT STUDENTS FIGHTING, SELLING DRUGS – CALLED A “WHITE SUPREMACIST,” FORCED TO RETIRE Sept 5, 2016 Theo Olson, a 16-year special education teacher in the St. Paul (Minnesota) Public Schools, has officially retired after coming to...

CLEVELAND—It wasn’t as surreal as Clint Eastwood interviewing a chair in Tampa in 2012, but David A. Clarke’s address to the Republican National Convention this week ranked right up there for its chutzpah, and it summed up the GOP’s state of mind right...