Politics

Across the country, essential workers are on strike for Black lives

Workers in a Miami McDonald’s before the Covid-19 pandemic. | Jeffrey Greenberg/Universal Images Group via Getty Images Racial injustice and…

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5 activists on how they’re carrying Rep. John Lewis’s legacy forward

Rep. John Lewis amid supporters at the Edmund Pettus Bridge in Selma, Alabama, in March 2020. | Joe Raedle/Getty Images…

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I am Native American and a former football player. Our history is much darker than racist mascots.

The Carlisle Industrial Indian School football team in 1898. | Choate & Co./Buyenlarge/Getty Images An NFL team changing its name…

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Rep. John Lewis’s voting rights legacy is in danger

Rep. John Lewis advocates for expanded voting rights protections in 2019. | Mark Wilson/Getty Images Lewis was unable to see…

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6 John Lewis speeches key to understanding his work and legacy

US civil rights icon, Democratic Representative John Lewis addresses a rally to support new anti-poverty legislation in South Central Los…

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3 pieces of pop culture that explain John Lewis’s legacy

Lewis in the documentary “John Lewis: Good Trouble,” at a July 2020 screening of the film in New York City.…

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Politicians and activists praise Rep. John Lewis’s legacy of “good trouble”

Rep. John Lewis protests the Trump administration’s family separation policy in 2018. | Alex Wong/Getty Images Lewis “risked his life…

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John Lewis’s graphic memoir trilogy, March, tells the story of a lifetime of results and actions

March, by John Lewis, Andrew Aydin, and Nate Powell | Top Shelf Productions In 2017, over the Martin Luther King…

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Rep. John Lewis, civil rights legend and moral center of Congress, has died at 80

Rep. John Lewis leaving the Capitol building in September 2019. | Bill Clark/CQ-Roll Call, Inc./Getty Images He is remembered as…

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Inception is the most imperfect of perfect movies. 10 years later, I still love it.

Ellen Page is in for a rude awakening in Nolan’s Inception (2010). Inception’s cultural impact overshadows it — but a…

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