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According to AP, Police have arrested more than 2,100 people during pro-Palestinian protests at college campuses across the country in recent weeks.
On April 22nd, The Unite Auto Workers won a historic victory at Volkswagen’s plant in Chattanooga, Tennessee, with 73% of workers voting in favor of the union.
Make A Circle follows several Bay Area child care providers as they work to keep their doors open and advocate for better pay and benefits.
For many students, the pressure to academically succeed starts young. Are mindfulness tools, the answer to helping students to curb stress?
Since the 1920’s, women have used the flight attendant profession to live and travel independently. A new film documents their fight for gender and racial equity.
In an unprecedented deal, a private company purchased land in a tiny Arizona town—and sold its water rights to a suburb 200 miles away.
A Washington Post & Examination News investigation details how food companies are exploiting the “anti-diet” movement to promote ultra-processed foods
Protests and encampments against the war in Gaza are continuing to grow on college campuses across the US, despite hundreds of arrests and crackdowns.
Dr. Uché Blackstock's new book is "as much about my work and awakening as a physician as it is a call to reimagine who we are as a country."
In their new book, Dr. Jenn Jackson shines a light on the central role of Black women in liberation movements, both in US history and their own life.
A new CalMatters investigation finds that governments, nonprofits, and businesses are increasingly hiring private guards to patrol homeless shelters and street encampments.
Children of Ukraine, a Frontline documentary, examines how thousands of Ukrainian children have been taken and held in Russian-controlled territory.
David Mas Masumoto's new book tells the story of his aunt, who was taken as a "ward of the state" in 1942. Seventy years later, Masumoto finds out his aunt is alive.
A Grist investigation reveals how 14 public universities continue to benefit from extractive industries on stolen Indigenous land.
50 years ago, a group of women created San Francisco Women Against Rape, an organization led by survivors. In 2024, the work they do is more important than ever.
Until the End of the World, a documentary following journalistic investigation into the fish farming industry across three continents
Over the past year, the war in Sudan has killed nearly 16,000 people, displaced millions, and triggered the world's largest hunger crisis
As the effects of climate change become irrefutable, the oil and gas industry has employed a number of tactics to block or delay climate action.
More than 33,000 Palestinians have been killed during the US-backed Israeli assault since October 7. More than 13,000 of those deaths are children.
Republicans on AZ's Supreme Court reinstated an 1864 abortion ban with no exceptions for rape or incest. This follows FL's high court, which allowed a six-week ban.
In his new book, Dr. Hotez writes, "I'm fearful for the future of our scientific institutions. We must restore the people's trust in science and scientists."
The new documentary Orca: Black & White Gold exposes the illegal trade in endangered wild orcas caught in Russia and sold to China, all fueled by US business practices.
The documentary Blue Carbon explores the power of coastal ecosystems to absorb more carbon from the atmosphere than tropical rainforests.
Maersk, the company responsible for the cargo ship that destroyed the Baltimore bridge, has a history of silencing whistleblowers, according to The Lever.
Several of Boeing's top leaders are stepping down as reports of safety issues with the 737 MAX planes and institutional failures across the company continue to pile up.
The Ireichō is the first comprehensive list of every name of the 125,284 Japanese Americans who were incarcerated during WW2.
Israel's six-month assault on Gaza has killed over 32,000 Palestinians, including 12,000 children, & wounded more than 75,000. Entire neighborhoods have been demolished.
The festival, which focuses on how we can protect, restore and celebrate the ocean, runs from April 12-14, followed by an online program from April 15-22.
More than 1,500 people have been killed in gang violence in Haiti this year, according to the UN. "Countless children" could die due to malnutrition, according to UNICEF.
Last week, six former Mississippi cops got sentences of 10 to 40 years for torturing and abusing Michael Jenkins and Eddie Parker, two Black men, in Rankin County, MS.
Tsuru for Solidarity is joining immigrant rights group to demand the closure of the Northwest Detention Center, a private immigrant detention center in Tacoma, WA.
Far-right funders who played a hand in overturning Roe are also backing plaintiffs in the Supreme Court case challenging the FDA's approval of mifepristone.
As millions struggle with economic precarity in the US, what will it take for the media to focus on what poverty and life without a social safety net really looks like?
A new Human Rights Watch report documents how Louisiana's Cancer Alley residents suffer the effects of extreme pollution from the fossil fuel and petrochemical industry.
Hours after the US Supreme Court had allowed Senate Bill 4 to go into effect, a federal appeals court blocked Texas from enforcing the law.
The opioid overdose death rate in men aged 20-39 in Dearborn has reached four times the national average, and over 2.5 times the state average.
More than 100 prominent Jewish Americans have signed a statement calling for the lobbying group AIPAC to end its intervention in Democratic primaries.
"Palo Alto" author Malcolm Harris explores California's role in the development of modern capitalism and how that shaped the world.
Ralph Nader has spent the past the past 70 years fighting for the people. He hosts a weekly radio show, writes a column, and is out with a new book, The Rebellious CEO.
Climate change had a significant effect on voting choices in the 2016 and 2020 elections. What will it take to get more environmental voters to the polls?
Newly released documents show the FBI monitored anti-Keystone protesters much earlier than previously known. Young Native activists were among its first targets.
The UN has recorded 573 attacks by settlers in the West Bank since Oct 7th, with Israeli forces accompanying them half the time.
On this edition of Your Call’s Media Roundtable, we discuss how the media should cover Donald Trump and his anti-democratic authoritarian agenda.
Ned Blackhawk interweaves five centuries of history, from Spanish colonial exploration to the rise of Native American self-determination in the late twentieth century.
Steven Levitsky and Daniel Ziblatt say the presidential election will determine whether the US will become a multiracial democracy or cease to be a democracy at all.
The ABCs of Book Banning says: The voices of those who support book banning have been heard. This film features the voices of those who have not been heard…the children.
According to the Freedom Food Alliance, the meat and dairy industries spend millions to influence public opinion on and discredit plant-based diets.
The US has been criticized for delivering aid to Gaza while funding and assisting Israel’s war. More than 30,000 Palestinians been killed in Israel’s bombardment of the besieged enclave.
"Just Action" by Richard and Leah Rothstein lays out a blueprint for activists and community groups to challenge housing segregation and enact real change.
