Handing out news to the 99%...and paying for it!
"The photo brought back happy recollections of my adventures handing out many thousands of our paper at plant gates, in my neighborhood or at huge demonstrations."
Cuba's first American Embassy Secretary in 50 years visits Bay Area
Interview with Miguel Fraga, the first secretary of the newly reestablished Cuban Embassy in Washington D.C.
South Carolinians facing tough times, but think politicians won’t help
Voters and non-voters alike see themselves and their neighbors facing hard times. But many of those we talked with feel that they are on their own.
African-American voters give Clinton a landslide win in South Carolina
"In rural areas many poor and minority residents have been neglected for decades and are struggling against nearly impossible odds trying to pull themselves out of poverty."
South Carolina voters want to reverse damage by GOP state government
South Carolinians desperately need better paying jobs, more accessible health care and better schools, but Governor Haley is using a $400 million surplus for tax cuts for the wealthy.
New study enumerates barriers to those with criminal records
The effect of a criminal record doesn't end with jobs. Food stamps and affordable housing restrictions also dog ex-convicts' ability to reintegrate into society.
Angela and Fania Davis on the radical work of healing
Angela Davis and her sister Fania Davis were working for social justice before many of today's activists were born.
The black community is key in South Carolina primary
Pundits have been examining opinions within the African American community and trying to predict whether Clinton or Sanders will capture the black vote.
Nothing rotten in Denmark: American exceptionalism hurts us
Sanders suggests we look to a place like Denmark not because it is socialist or capitalist, but because the people there enjoy a higher quality of life.
This week in history: First Black woman earns a medical degree
Rebecca Davis Lee became the first African-American woman to become a physician in the United States.
