In the U.S.

The richest 1% own nearly a third of the country’s wealth. Between early 2025 and early 2026, their wealth grew by more than the bottom half of the country owns altogether. Corporate profits hit a […]

Donald Trump is remaking the U.S. military command. Secretary of War Pete Hegseth has blocked the promotions of seven U.S. Army officers selected for major general. Two are Black. Two are women. The New York […]

In the mid-1960s, Harvard researchers experimented with wearable radio tracking devices for people caught in the criminal “justice” system. These were very early prototypes of what would become the ankle monitor. In the early 1970s, […]

Jazz musician Cassandra Wilson died at her home in Jackson, Mississippi, on Sept. 1. She was 70. She was born in Jackson on Dec. 4, 1955, 10 weeks after an all-white jury 115 miles north […]

For generations, the rule for Black workers in the United States has been “last hired, first fired.” In the Black city of Gary, Indiana, it’s now “the last place where the lights came back on.” […]

At Walmart, half the workers make less than $30,520 a year. At Dollar General, half make less than $18,876. A new Government Accountability Office study examined 11 states representing about one-fifth of the U.S. population […]

A federal judge in Minneapolis heard arguments Aug. 27 on whether prosecutors must turn over more records from the government’s surveillance of the Minnesota 15, labor unions and community organizations opposing ICE. The 15 defendants, […]