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Medicine has grown so powerful and so profitable procedures go unquestioned. Many tests detect something worthy of follow-up -- procedures sometimes dubious, all to the point of extending life without regard to its quality. Stealing a march on every medical vulnerability as you age can boomerang.

Today's Poor People's Campaign seeks to develop local leadership, including strong representation of the millions of poor people — black, brown, and white — to create a multi-racial, multi-gendered, intergenerational movement to heal the racial and economic divides tearing America apart.

What is needed is a broad-based coalitional effort to combat not only street violence, school violence and sexual violence but also state violence.

“Since their invention, online forums for advertisements and community-building have been essential to sex worker survival,” says Liz Afton, a counselor at the Sex Workers Project, an initiative of New York City’s Urban Justice Center (UJC).

In March, the New York Parole Board granted parole for Herman Bell. A judge in New York has suspended the release of Bell.

One of the nation's oldest and most prestigious regional newspapers, The Chicago Tribune, could soon have a unionized staff. On Wednesday morning, journalists from its newsroom informed management that they are preparing to organize and that they have collected signatures from dozens of colleagues.

America’s security depends on defeating oligarchy abroad and at home.

Actor who starred in popular 1980s film advocates critical stance towards art of past.

Women’s general strike; MLK and hip-hop; Supporting the kids; Teachers hit the bricks; Labour’s scandal up close

The problem is that employers continue to engage in pay disparities without real accountability.