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Shen Yun dance company and its secretive parent, Falun Gong, investigated

November 19, 2024 By Mark Gruenberg

Anti-communist cult operating near Warwick, New York engages in labor practices harmful to many of its young workers and tells them “Donald Trump is an angel from heaven.”

Dallas City Council: ‘Union-busting has no place in our city!’

October 25, 2024 By Gene Lantz

City pulls funding from theater that fired dancers who join the union.

Pride and Billy Elliot: same strike, contrasting portrayals

July 5, 2024 By Juliana Barnet

Both Billy Elliot and Pride are set during the pivotal 1984-5 Miners’ Union strike in northern England, where miners struggled for over a year against the implacable Thatcher government to win better working conditions.

Being Black and gay in the USA: Interview with dancer Diego Mugler

June 29, 2021 By Maicol David Lynch

“I was afraid of being feminine. I just mastered this balancing act at 32 years of age. The things you may hide from some people are the same things that other people will celebrate and love,...

The ‘Icon’-ic roots of LGBTQ street culture

June 23, 2021 By Maicol David Lynch

Thanks to Jamil Icon and other members of the ballroom community, the world is finally getting to know the working-class Black and brown roots of contemporary LGBTQ culture.