Dorothy Allison was an authentic voice for the poor, capturing the beauty, humor and pain of working-class life in America
Even though her most famous work, ‘Bastard out of Carolina,’ deals with physical and sexual abuse, this merely constitutes ...
Anthony Scaramucci is worried about a stock-market crash not seen since the late 1920s if Trump follows through on some of his plans
Anthony Scaramucci thinks there's a chance that stocks crash. Here's why he's concerned and why a major market collapse is ...
Alternet on MSN6d
Activist Bishop William Barber slams Dems for abandoning the working poor
Why is it that the issues that most of the public agrees with — healthcare, living wages, voting rights, democracy — why is ...
Democrats Deserted Working Poor: Bishop William Barber on Healthcare, Living Wages, Voting Rights
Why is it that the issues that most of the public agrees with — healthcare, living wages, voting rights, democracy — why is ...
Salt Lake City Weekly11d
During the Roaring Twenties, a Utahn's candidacy for president sought to shake up America's two-party politics.
Although he later served as a member of the Utah House of Representatives under the banner of Theodore Roosevelt's ...
yonkerstimes12d
Harris and Trump are both a part of the malaise called America
OP-ED by Clifford Jackson The election between Vice President Kamala Harris and former president Donald Trump is not the good vs evil reporting that we are seeing in the corporate media. At least most ...
The Week15d
NEET, like Sanskrit in 1920s, denies medical education to poor students: Udhayanidhi Stalin
The National Eligibility cum Entrance Test (NEET), the nationwide entrance exam for medical colleges introduced by the Union government, is just like how Sanskrit was used in the 1920s to prevent ...
onmanorama15d
NEET is like the Sanskrit of the 1920s, used to deny medical education to poor students: Udhayanidhi
"Why do the people of the two states stand so strongly against fascism? That is because of the progressive politics firmly established here," Udhayanidhi said. In the 1920s, those who spoke Sanskrit ...
St. Louis Post-Dispatch16d
Nov. 2, 1920: Voters pick first Black person to serve in Missouri General Assembly
Refers to the latest 2 years of stltoday.com stories. Cancel anytime. Walthall Moore was elected on Nov. 2, 1920, as the first Black man to hold office in the Missouri Legislature. Moore was 38 ...
Talking Points Memo16d
How Trump’s Racist Talk Of Immigrant ‘Bad Genes’ Echoes Some Of The Last Century’s Darkest Ideas About Eugenics
In early October 2024, Trump took his comments a step further when he questioned immigrants’ faulty genes, saying without support that “Many of them murdered far more than one person ...
Houston Chronicle17d
For one survivor, the 1920 Election Day massacre in Florida was ‘the night the devil got loose’
The majority of Black people in Ocoee in 1920 lost their homes, and as many as 60 of them lost their lives. The violence in Ocoee was not surprising, given the white-supremacist Ku Klux Klan’s efforts ...
Laredo Morning Times17d
For one survivor, the 1920 Election Day massacre in Florida was ‘the night the devil got loose’
The majority of Black people in Ocoee in 1920 lost their homes, and as many as 60 of them lost their lives. The violence in Ocoee was not surprising, given the white-supremacist Ku Klux Klan’s ...