Stevie Wonder on Monday posted an emotional open letter to Martin Luther King Jr. in which he said he was using the holiday to call on the Biden-Harris Administration to launch a truth commission on inequality in America. […]
“The labor movement’s pundits and prognosticators ring in the New Year like commentators anywhere,” write Rand Wilson and Peter Olney in Labor Notes. “They make pronouncements about what ‘will’ happen and what ‘should’ happen […]
Morgan Freeman will commemorate Martin Luther King Jr Day [on Monday] with a series of 12 videos that will begin playing hourly on Freeman’s Instagram page, at 8 AM Eastern time. Each video recalls Dr. King’s words, most of which have […]
Two days after the Los Angeles Public Health Department announced that the much-talked-about UK variant of Covid-19, known as B117, had been identified in the region, the California Department of Public Health revealed that another lesser- […]
The Netflix documentary Dick Johnson Is Dead, directed by Kirsten Johnson, won two awards on the night, for Best Editing and Best Writing at the International Documentary Association’s IDA Awards. The editor is Nels Bangerter. […]
“President-elect Biden announced a proposed relief and recovery package that provides relief that is commensurate with the scale of the economic challenge facing the United States,” writes Josh Bivens for The Economic Policy Institute […]
Los Angeles county, which has become the epicenter of the coronavirus pandemic, has reached its grimmest milestone yet as officials confirm more than 1 million total cases of Covid-19. The county continues its trend of at least 100,000 […]
As entertainment venues including Broadway theaters, dance centers, arenas and concert halls lie empty across the country due to the coronavirus pandemic, IATSE… tweeted earlier this week, “Turn live venues into COVID vaccination sites […]
Neil Mahoney, an Emmy-nominated editor, director, writer and producer who contributed to such comedies as Key & Peele, Portlandia and Drunk History, has died. He was 43. After returning from a trip to the mountains with a friend […]
In several US cities, fast food workers went on strike Friday to demand a $15 minimum hourly wage and the right to unionize, boosting pressure on President-elect Joe Biden to deliver on his campaign promise to push for the wage increase […]
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