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The NFL Players' Association, Lamar Jackson, and trans kids in sports | Edge of Sports TV
In the premiere episode of the all-new series Edge of Sports, host Dave Zirin interviews DeMaurice Smith, outgoing Executive Director of the NFL Players' Association. The episode also touches on the …
Published on 2 years ago
Labor must join the fight to stop Cop City | Working People
Plans to build Cop City have been mired in controversy and civil rights violations from the beginning—from the city government's attempts to ignore residents' and activists' objections and force thro…
Published on 2 years ago
My life in the Civil Rights Movement | The Marc Steiner Show
TRNN show host Marc Steiner's Rise of the Right series has followed the ascendance of far-right political forces domestically and internationally. In a special episode of The Marc Steiner Show, TRNN …
Published on 2 years ago
East Palestine residents have been left behind—and they're running out of water
Months after a catastrophic Norfolk Southern train derailment changed their lives and communities forever, residents of East Palestine, Ohio, and the surrounding area feel “numb,” lied to, and abando…
Published on 2 years ago
48-year political prisoner reviews John Oliver's report on solitary confinement
The topic of solitary confinement was the focus of a recent episode of John Oliver's Last Week Tonight on HBO. Thanks to the hard work of activists organizing against solitary confinement for decades…
Published on 2 years ago
How illegal Great Depression-era PA coal miners fought cops, banks, and bosses to unionize
The onset of the Great Depression brought devastation to Pennsylvania's coal region. Suddenly rendered unemployed, coal miners with no other way to make a living turned to 'bootleg' mining, setting u…
Published on 2 years, 1 month ago
Cash bail is an abomination of justice | Rattling the Bars
While the underlying logic of the cash bail system in the US may sound convincing on paper, in practice it has become a means of denying justice to, and destroying the lives of, people who have not e…
Published on 2 years, 1 month ago
These workers are making Baltimore a union town again | Working People
Read the transcript of this episode here: https://www.therealnews.com
We hosted a Working People live show at The Real News Network studio in Baltimore on May 18. In this panel discussion, co-hosted b…
Published on 2 years, 1 month ago
America is in the middle of a ‘slow civil war’ | The Marc Steiner Show
Jeff Sharlet has been studying and reporting on far-right movements in the US for decades, but something feels different now. From Waco and Ruby Ridge in the ‘90s to the 2014 Bundy family standoff wi…
Published on 2 years, 1 month ago
Three years later, George Floyd's family members are still fighting for justice
Read the transcript of this interview: https://therealnews.com/three-years-later-george-floyds-family-members-are-still-fighting-for-justice
The name George Floyd has become a symbol across not only t…
Published on 2 years, 1 month ago