Tentative pacts avert Metropolitan Opera lockout scheme
The tentative agreement includes mandatory cost reductions from management and an independent monitor to track budget performance.
Metropolitan Opera unions say they are being forced to strike
Deep salary cut demands, which its unions say are unjustified, and a company threat to close down are combining to force members of the 16 unions to plan to strike, if necessary.
"Death Blow to Jim Crow" comes highly recommended
At its peak, the National Negro Congress (NNC) included over 3,000 civic, religious, fraternal, labor and community organizations representing millions people.
Inequality in U.S. today is similar to 1929 and Gilded Age
Author Sam Pizzigati says that inequity and plutocracy are so bad that the U.S. now looks like a combination of 1929 - before the Great Depression - and the Gilded Age, before the Progressive Era.
Beatrice Lumpkin's extraordinary book about her extraordinary life
The interweaving of anger, sorrow, humor, and joy makes "Joy in the Struggle" a deeply human book about a woman who has devoted her entire life to the fight for equality, democracy, and peace.
