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On Nov. 4, Amherst residents in District 1 will cast their ballots to elect two of three candidates running to represent the ...

In 2024, Black Rose/Rosa Negra’s International Relations Committee began working closely with anarchist revolutionaries in ...

I think there’s so much division nationally. And there can be division in towns as well. And there is division in Amherst.

For years, Polk State College has offered a course called Introduction to African-American Studies. The course surveyed the ...

Tim Wu’s "The Age of Extraction" argues that Big Tech’s dominance is squeezing businesses, distorting markets, and destabilizing democracy.

The works of the 2025 Nobel Prize for Literature can be read a means to slowing down a world constantly in motion.

Former U.S. Rep. Carolyn Cheeks Kilpatrick, who served seven terms for the state of Michigan, has died at age 80. A statement from the Kilpatrick family reads: It is with profound sadness that we ...

U.S. Sen. Ashley Moody is part of a bipartisan group of lawmakers who have introduced a proposed bill that would call for ...

Most "sane people would run a mile" from a career in politics, Wales' former Liberal Democrat leader has said. Kirsty ...

Former President Moon Jae-in is planning to regularly host a YouTube broadcast with Tak Hyun-min, a special appointment professor at Mokpo University and former protocol secretary of the Cheong Wa Dae ...