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Coal miners in Alabama are striking for their fair share
On Thursday, April 1, around 1,100 coal miners at Warrior Met Coal in Tuscaloosa County, Alabama, went on strike. After the bargaining unit with the…
Battleground Baltimore: Freedom?
Advocates fight security deposit bill Housing advocates are calling on Mayor Brandon Scott to veto a bill passed by the City Council this week that…
Charges dropped in multiple cases after PAR investigative reports
PAR has three positive updates on cases we’ve recently covered. As part of our coverage of overpolicing in rural America, we update the case of…
Amazon workers in Bessemer have overthrown decades of anti-union culture
There’s a standoff in Bessemer, Alabama, right now, and the whole world is watching. For nearly the entirety of the past year, amid a deadly…
Bob the Drag Queen: RuPaul’s Drag Race winner on ‘non-conformity’ in the Black community
This week, @thatonequeen joins the professors for a conversation about love—love of self, love of community, and love of one’s fellow humans—and all of the…
400,000 children could die if Yemen blockade isn’t ended
Yemeni-Americans with the group Liberate Yemen launched a hunger strike on March 29 to demand an end to the Saudi-led and U.S.-backed blockade of Yemen….
How megacorporations exploit US prison labor
The 13th Amendment has created an inhumane (but perfectly legal) system in which multinational corporations are able to regularly exploit prison slave labor in the…
After COVID-19, does higher education have a future?
COVID-19 has wreaked havoc on the world of higher education: forced campus reopenings have pushed many directly into harm’s way; colleges and universities have suffered…
America: The land of lost causes
COVID-19 has put an incredible amount of pressure on higher education and its workers, including graduate students and contingent faculty who shoulder heavy workloads and…
A feminist path out of our bullet-riddled hell
This story originally appeared in Ms. magazine on Mar. 29, 2021, and is shared with permission from Ms. On the afternoon of Monday, March 22,…
Battleground Baltimore: Make It Make Sense
Reopening in a Pandemic: Make It Make Sense Gov. Larry Hogan roiled people who still have common sense Thursday when he said that Maryland residents…
Did cops retaliate against this activist?
As we continue our investigation into overpolicing and mass incarceration in rural America, we return to Pocomoke City on Maryland’s Lower Eastern Shore to speak…
Georgia’s new voter suppression law is rooted in Jim Crow racism
By now you’ve seen the images of black Georgia lawmaker Park Cannon being arrested and dragged away inside Georgia’s State Capitol. Cannon was charged with…
The Tight Rope Celebrates Women’s History Month
As Women’s History Month comes to a close and Black Women’s History Month begins, we revisit some of our favorite moments with the powerful women…
Will we stand up for Black trans lives, too?
Last summer, during what some have called the largest social justice uprising in United States history, the lives of Black trans people were ignored. While…
A sanitation worker’s vision for a better society
We sit down and chat with (former) Philly sanitation worker and Instagram sensation Terrill Haigler—or, as listeners may know him, “Ya Fav Trashman.” Terrill’s incredible…
This bodycam footage reveals all that is wrong with policing
Video obtained by TRNN reporters Taya Graham and Stephen Janis highlights American law enforcement officers’ lack of de-escalation training and respect for civilians. On this…
Workers in Bessemer are “gonna start a movement”
After a year of workers organizing, signing union authorization cards, enduring constant union-busting efforts from management, and participating in an election, the historic union drive…
The debt is too damn high!
Americans are currently buried under a staggering $1.7 trillion in student debt, and many see no way out. This is why the Debt Collective, a…
Battleground Baltimore: The tangled knot of Baltimore politics
Mosbys under investigation Last week, The Baltimore Sun reported that federal prosecutors had launched a criminal investigation into Baltimore City State’s Attorney Marilyn Mosby and…
Bigger than Bessemer: Workers everywhere must stand up & fight back
Jennifer Bates was among the group of warehouse workers who initiated the process of forming a union at the Amazon fulfillment center in Bessemer, Alabama….
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