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As Polls Show Toss-Up Over Texas Senate Seat, Cruz Uses First Debate to Attack O'Rourke's Increasingly Popular Progressive Proposals

The Clear Victim, Not the 'Perpetrator of a Crime': Outrage After Police and Local News Outlet Smear Botham Jean

Julia Conley, staff writer

"There is literally no scenario where a black man killed by police (even an off-duty one) cannot be blamed for his own death."

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Newly Revealed Paid Speeches Leave 'No Question Whatsoever' That Republican Ron DeSantis Is a Racist

Julia Conley, staff writer

GOP congressman is running against Democrat Andrew Gillum, who would be Florida...

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Trailblazing California Law Abolishes Cash Bail, But Rights Groups Warn It Won't End Unjust Pre-Trial Detentions

Julia Conley, staff writer

"The good news is that the cash bail industry will disappear in California.....

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Victory: Georgia County Election Officials Nix Black Voter Suppression Plan

South African Officials Among Many Denouncing Trump's "Disgusting" White Supremacist Talking Point on Land Reforms

'Take Her Name Out of Your Mouth': Family of Mollie Tibbetts Tell Right-Wingers, Led by Trump, to Stop Exploiting Her Death for Racist, Anti-Immigrant Narrative

'This Is Voter Suppression in 2018': Georgia County Under Fire for Cynical Ploy to Disenfranchise Black Voters in Name of Disability Rights

Ted Cruz-Challenger Beto O'Rourke Gains National Attention With Viral Video Defending NFL Players Who Take a Knee

Despite Frequent Lip Service to Anti-Trump Resistance, Corporate Executives Continue Cozy Relationship with President

'Everybody Pull!': North Carolina Protesters Topple Confederate Statue Silent Sam

In Latest Attack on Fair Housing Act, Carson Moves to Gut Anti-Segregation Rule

Racist President at It Again: Trump Claims Kneeling NFL Players 'Unable to Define' What They're Protesting

Wesley Bell speaks during the dedication of a new community empowerment center in Ferguson, Missouri.

Overcoming 'Decades of Corruption and Systemic Racism,' Reformer Wesley Bell Ousts Prosecutor Who Let Michael Brown's Killer Off the Hook

Denouncing America's "Debtor Prison" System, Sanders Introduces Bill to End Cash Bail

Saying 'A Handful of Pardons' Won't Cut It, NFL Players Demand Sweeping Prison Reform

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Kaepernick vs. Trump: Making America Great Again

Kaepernick vs. Trump

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NAACP

NAACP Outraged by Attorney General’s Ignorance of FBI Report

UltraViolet

Activists Drop “WOMEN RESIST WHITE SUPREMACY” Banner Inside Trump Tower Lobby

Center for Constitutional Rights (CCR)

Civil Rights Attorneys: Racial Disparities Persist in NYPD Stop and Frisk

ACLU

ACLU Challenges Unconstitutional Debtors’ Prison Practices in South Carolina County

The Leadership Conference on Civil and Human Rights

73 National Groups Demand OFCCP Remain Intact

Center for Popular Democracy

CPD-Action Launches $80 Million National Network to Resist Trump Administration’s Agenda, Build Political Power in Working Class Communities of Color

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Christopher Brauchli

The Pot Addresses the Kettle

Janine Jackson

WaPo Can’t Believe White Supremacist Senate Candidate Really Means It

Juan Cole

The Royal Wedding and the End of Whiteness?

Colleen Kane Gielskie

Not Charging the White Officers Who Killed Alton Sterling Is a Travesty

Billy Corriher

Trump's Census Move Borrowed From Racial Gerrymandering Playbook

Martin Luther King, Jr

Beyond Vietnam: A Time to Break Silence

Christen A. Smith

The Fallout of Police Violence Is Killing Black Women Like Erica Garner

Sue Sturgis

Institute Index: The Mounting Injustice of the Proposed Atlantic Coast Pipeline

Donna Smith

White House Bully Disrespects, Embarrasses America

Peter Dreier

This Labor Day, Remember That Martin Luther King’s Last Campaign Was for Workers’ Rights

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