In recent months, the national dialogue on environmental justice has intensified, with the water crisis in Flint, Michigan, forcing the American public to consider how…
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Like the tobacco companies a generation ago, Johnson & Johnson and its cosmetics lobby have known about the link between its talcum powder and cancer…
My water’s clean, but I’m feeling sick anyway. The residents of Flint have gone without clean water for 748 days, and counting. That’s more than two…
A few years ago, while clearing dried broccoli stalks from the tired soil of our land at Soul Fire Farm in upstate New York, I…
The United States is on the verge of a national crisis that could mean the end of clean, cheap water. Hundreds of cities and towns…
May is National Foster Month, “Honoring, Uniting, and Celebrating Families.” But is this really what foster care is doing? Theoretically, foster care provides a temporary…
There are two things we all need to know about the upcoming 2016 election: 1. Millions of likely Democratic voters have already been stripped from…
These drugs are dangerous enough for adults—so why are we giving them to two-year-olds (and even younger) children? Who exactly has the mental problem here?…
Early each New Year’s Day I head for Lake Michigan with a handful of friends. We look for a quiet stretch of what, only six…
Welcome, to the radio magazine that brings you news, commentary and analysis from a Black Left perspective with Glen Ford and co-host Nellie Bailey. –…
Election 2016: The Michigan Mashup and Other Political Anomalies Leid Stories and listeners dissect the results of the March 8 primaries and caucuses in Hawaii,…
The ongoing water crisis in Flint, Michigan has highlighted just how harmful lead contamination is. What you may not realize, however, is that lead exposure…