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China’s new five-year plan could leave workers behind

March 28, 2016 By C.J. Atkins

Workers hit the streets last week demanding back pay and to protest against wage cuts and the possibility of unemployment.

Cubans look to U.S. example to fix racism? Not so fast

March 25, 2016 By W. T. Whitney, Jr.

A New York Times reporter claims the visit of an African-descended U.S. president to the island could help end silence on an issue which he thinks persists.

A national object lesson: California’s air and coast, a buyer’s market

March 25, 2016 By Rev. Jim Conn

Most recently, the South Coast Air Quality Management District upended its mission to clean our air.

African American history event recalls even King had doubts at times

March 25, 2016 By Michael Nowek Jr. And Joelle Fishman

"Struggle, it never stops. It moves on. We make progress but we have to keep on fighting."

A terrible beauty: Ireland’s 1916 Easter Rising

March 25, 2016 By Conn Hallinan

It is a hundred years since some 750 men and women threw up barricades and seized strong points in downtown Dublin, to be joined by maybe a thousand more.