By Rodrigo Dutra & Mike Elk RIO DE JANEIRO, BRASIL – On Wednesday, in Rio de Janeiro, thousands of educators, members of the National Education Workers Alliance (CNTE), went on strike as part of a nationwide strike that mobilized over 150,000 educators and school employees from various unions throughout the

Greeting from the Burgh, where I am exhausted after staying up most of the night reading obituaries about one of my heroes Harry Belafonte.  Read this 1996 Profile of Harry Belafonte  One of the best profiles of Belafonte that I read last night is this long 1996 New Yorker profile

In France, unions are vowing to continue a series of strikes after French President Emmanuel Macron raised the retirement age from 62 to 64. Strikes have already seen millions of workers in the streets against the changes and are likely to grow. “All the labor unions are calling on the

Earlier today, I was heartbroken to learn that Harry Belaftone passed away at age 96. An activist, actor, and statesman, he was a hero to many. In 2017, I had the honor of covering one of Belafonte’s last public appearances in Pittsburgh for the Guardian. Belafonte reflected at length