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Congressional Black Caucus: When Black Excellence Is Not Black Power

September 30, 2026 Melina Abdullah, LA Progressive. , , ,
I am still unpacking from the Congressional Black Caucus’ Annual Legislative Conference, literally and figuratively… I went to “CBC Weekend” for the first time when I was 26 or 27. I didn’t even know that they had panels during the day. I rolled to DC, hair done and dressed to the nines to party hop and see who I could meet. With my Ph.D. imminent, I thought I wanted to make inroads into what is now known as “Black excellence.” I have vague memories of Coach purses, Nordstrom’s outfits, Moet champagne sips, and a few laughs with old Howard friends, not a single date or networking contact of note, but I was there.

Big Firms Spent At Least $1.7B On Union-Busting Last Year

September 12, 2026 Mark Gruenberg, People's World. , , ,
The nation’s corporations spent $1.7 billion on union-busters last year—and that figure actually is an understatement. A new report from LaborLab, which in turn mined the data it received from the Economic Policy Institute and from forms the Labor Department requires such “persuaders” to file, breaks down the sum into $1.5 billion for “union avoidance” law firms, who can charge thousands of dollars a day for their services, and $200 million more for “consulting fees.” The understatement occurs for two reasons. One is straightforward: Though the union-busters must report to the U.S. Labor Department their expenses for services to companies, 57% of them leave the “fees” box on DOL’s required LM-20 form blank.

Louisiana Weakened Community Air Monitoring As Industry Pushed Back

July 27, 2026 Ruth Milka, NationofChange. , , , , ,
In Louisiana’s petrochemical belt, some of the people most exposed to toxic air have the least information about what they are breathing. A new investigation by the nonprofit newsroom Floodlight, produced in partnership with The Guardian and with contributions from the Louisiana Illuminator, finds that the state’s public air monitors are frequently located miles from major industrial polluters and fail to test for some of the most dangerous chemicals released along the corridor between Baton Rouge and New Orleans. That stretch of roughly 85 miles, widely known as “Cancer Alley,” is home to dozens of refineries and chemical plants and to many predominantly Black communities.

Celebrating Pride Without Cops Or Corporate Sponsors

July 1, 2026 Luce Miyar-Mullan, The Indypendent. , , , ,
On June 28, the Reclaim Pride Coalition held their 8th annual Queer Liberation March (QLM): a two-mile march from Union Square to Foley Square. The march was established in 2019 in response to New York City’s increasingly corporatized Pride Parade.  While more than a million people attended the mainstream Heritage Pride Parade down Fifth Avenue Sunday afternoon, the thousands of marchers who gathered at Union Square presented a much different scene. There were no corporate floats, no police barricades, and little of the spectacle that defines Manhattan’s official Pride Parade.

Uranium Mining Permit Hearing In Black Hills Halted

June 13, 2026 Darren Thompson, Unicorn Riot. , , ,
Hot Springs, SD — A scheduled hearing was halted after opponents against a proposed uranium drilling project in the Black Hills of South Dakota filed a lawsuit in federal court on May 20. The lawsuit is centered around the state providing Lakota language translation services during a public hearing regarding a uranium mining project near a sacred site in the southern Black Hills. Plaintiffs are asking for the federal government to direct the state of South Dakota to provide interpretation and translation services in the Lakota language during the hearing. 

Trump Lands In Beijing With Over A Dozen Western Moguls In Tow

May 13, 2026 News Desk, The Cradle. , , ,
US President Donald Trump landed in Beijing on 13 May for a crucial meeting with Chinese President Xi Jinping to address trade, technology, Taiwan, the war against Iran, and the Strait of Hormuz. Met with red-carpet treatment in the Chinese capital, Trump was joined by a retinue of more than a dozen billionaires whose companies span major sectors of the US and global economies. A total of 16 high-profile business leaders accompanied the US president, including Tesla and SpaceX CEO Elon Musk and Apple CEO Tim Cook, as well as CEOs from Nvidia, Qualcomm, BlackRock, Goldman Sachs, Citigroup, Mastercard, Visa, Boeing, and Meta Platforms President and Vice Chair Dina Powell McCormick. 

How Environmental Destruction Is Built Into Corporate Design

May 11, 2026 Saskia Karges, Resilience. , , ,
A century ago, Henry Ford attempted to lower the price of the Model T and pay his workers better, famously saying: My ambition is to employ still more men, to spread the benefits of this industrial system to the greatest possible number, to help them build up their lives and their homes. To do this, we are putting the greatest share of our profits back into the business. The Dodge brothers, minority shareholders, sued. They demanded that Ford stop lowering prices and instead distribute the surplus as dividends. The court ruled in their favor, cementing the idea that a business is carried on primarily for the profit of the stockholders.

Every 104 Minutes Corporate Neglect Kills Another Worker

April 24, 2026 Mark Gruenberg, People's World. , , ,
A worker dies from corporate negligence every 104 minutes. The suppliers of auto parts for Hyundai and Kia cars. The Subway restaurant chain. The nation’s biggest homebuilder, which let Donald Trump’s vicious and violent ICE agents raid its job sites. A snack food company that puts migrants’ children into hazardous factory jobs. “Workers are still being poisoned, injured, exploited and killed on the job,” says Jessica Martinez, executive director of the National Council for Occupational Safety and Health (NACOSH), which released its annual “Dirty Dozen” report on the worst job safety and health violators nominated by its local councils and allies, and why those corporate bad actors made the list–though they’re not alone. 

Naming And Shaming Food Barons

April 2, 2026 Chris Mills Rodrigo, Inequality.org. , , , ,
Growing up in Northern California, Peet’s was always treated as a local coffee shop. The first location of the chain founded in 1966 was just a 15-minute train ride from my childhood home in the East Bay. Yes, Peet’s had locations across the United States, but it still felt like an alternative to the corporate behemoth of Starbucks.  That changed in 2012 when Peet’s was acquired by JAB Holding Company, a secretive firm based in Luxembourg. Peet’s wasn’t the only locally-loved chain integrated into what is now a global empire that sells more coffee than Starbucks. 

People Die While Companies Profit

March 27, 2026 Rebecca Gordon, TomDispatch.com. , , ,
The March 4, 2026, edition of the Arizona Daily Star put the facts succinctly: “A Haitian asylum seeker held for four months at Florence Correctional Center died Monday at a Scottsdale hospital due to complications from an infected tooth.” It seems the infection spread from his tooth to his lungs, and he developed the pneumonia that killed him. In other words, U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) allowed a prisoner to die of a toothache. His name was Emmanuel Damas. He was 56 years old and the father of two.

Three Massive Funds Control A Chunk Of Most Media

March 7, 2026 Saurav Sarkar, Fairness and Accuracy in Reporting. , , ,
Recently, FAIR (2/3/26) took a look at the owners of the biggest online media outlets. It focused on the controlling owners of those outlets, which are mostly publicly traded corporations. But a lot of the money—about $2 trillion dollars—invested in the top 50 online media outlets in the US is not the controlling owners’. Rather, it is possessed by minority institutional investors that manage assets for others. Take BlackRock, Inc., for instance. Innovation & Tech Today (7/8/22) called it “the biggest company you’ve probably never heard of.”

US Attacks In Venezuela, Greenland Lay Groundwork For Billionaire Fiefdoms

February 24, 2026 Beth Geglia, Truthout. , , , , ,
On January 3, 2026, Tim Stern, a German investor, was sleeping peacefully at his Venezuela residence when the phone on his small bedside table suddenly went wild. As he explained to Timothy Allen of the “Free Cities Podcast,” calls streamed in immediately after news broke that the United States had bombed Caracas in the early hours of the morning. Within hours, it was clear that Venezuelan President Nicolás Maduro had been captured and was being sent to the United States — a change, Stern said in the podcast, that “is going to be the start of an absolute bonanza here in Venezuela.”

The EPA’s Zero Sum Game Surfaces A Dialectical Paradox

February 7, 2026 Anthony Karefa Rogers-Wright, Black Agenda Report. , , , ,
Kali Akuno, founder of Jackson, Mississippi-based Cooperation Jackson, reminds us in his book Jackson Rising Redux, “To deal with the crisis of Black labor redundancy, the US ruling class has responded by creating a multipronged strategy of limited incorporation [see also the Black Misleadership class, the cooniferous Congressional Black Caucus, and other elements of the Black petty bourgeois], counterinsurgency [i.e. crushing, dividing, and severely weakening and elite capturing of Black-led organizations], and mass containment [vis a vis mass incarceration and the prison industrial complex]."

ExxonMobil Moves To Reshape Global Climate Accounting

January 26, 2026 Sharon Kelly, DeSmog. , , ,
“Pollution is everybody’s business,” Imperial Oil, Exxon’s Canadian affiliate, wrote in a 1970 report, “because essentially all of it results from the activities of men working to satisfy the needs and desires of men.” Fast forward over a half century and Imperial’s old argument is taking a new form. Today, ExxonMobil is seeking to upend how carbon emissions are accounted for — by changing the rules of the game. An ExxonMobil-backed initiative, Carbon Measures, is pushing to reshape how the world does the math on climate change. Their system, outside analysts point out, leaves consumers holding the bag.

Inside Coca-Cola’s Multi-Billion Dollar Theft Of Trade Secrets

December 4, 2025 Ray Rogers, Work-Bites. , , ,
Since 2004, as part of the Campaign to Stop Killer Coke, I have attended Coca-Cola’s annual meetings of shareholders to confront The Coca-Cola Company’s chief executives and board members over the company's involvement in horrific human rights abuses and other criminal behavior. These meetings often became confrontational and tense. I was violently attacked from behind while standing at the microphone raising issues of Coca-Cola’s complicity in deadly human rights abuses perpetrated against union leaders in Colombia. The assailants turned out to be Wilmington, Delaware police dressed in plain clothes moonlighting as Coca-Cola security.
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