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Civil Rights Groups Sue NC City Over Law That 'Effectively Bans Any Protest'

'Money Changes Everything': Corporate Sponsors Finally Join Native American Call for Washington Redskins Name Change

Julia Conley, staff writer

Investor coalition worth $620 billion pushed FedEx, Pepsi, and Nike to change stance, prompting team owner to announce a review of the name.

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'This Is Why We March': Poll Shows Overwhelming US Support for Police Reform, Increased Accountability

Julia Conley, staff writer

Among other major changes, large majorities of the American public want clear...

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"Stay in the Streets. It's Working": Two Weeks Into Racial Justice Protests, NY Classifies Use of Chokeholds as Felony

Julia Conley, staff writer

"Let's keep pushing, marching, organizing, and winning for our communities."

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New Yorkers Confront de Blasio Over Defense of NYPD Violence as Calls Mount for Mayor's Resignation

#SayHerName: On Breonna Taylor's 27th Birthday, Advocates Demand Justice in Shooting Death by Louisville Police

As US Rises Up Against Racial Injustice, International Crisis Group Calls on Trump to 'Stop Making Situation Worse'

'Yes, I Will Name Names': AOC Leads Charge Against Empty Corporate Claims of #BlackLivesMatter

Minneapolis School Board to Vote on Ending Contract With Police Over Failure to 'See Humanity in Our Students'

Ahmaud Arbery

'Justice Demands That Arrests Be Made' After Video of Ahmaud Arbery's Killing Goes Viral

With 700+ Coronavirus Cases in US and 7 in Mexico, Trump Rebuked for Again Touting Border Wall as Solution

Civil Rights Advocates Shut Down Klobuchar Rally, Demanding Justice for Teen She Helped Sentence to Life in Prison

Progressive Groups Launch #NeverBloomberg Campaign, Demanding Top Democrats Oppose Former New York Mayor's Run

New Report Blames Corporate Tax Cuts, Attacks on Unions for Persistent Inequality and Slow Wage Growth Among Low Earners in US

Warren Slams Bloomberg for Blaming 2008 Financial Meltdown On End of Redlining Policy

Because Facial Recognition Makes Students and Faculty Less Safe, 40+ Rights Groups Call on Universities to Ban Technology

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Kaepernick vs. Trump: Making America Great Again

Kaepernick vs. Trump

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Public Citizen

Brouillette Should Resign Over Racially Insensitive Remarks

Lawyers' Committee for Civil Rights Under Law

Lawyers’ Committee for Civil Rights Under Law Responds to CDC’s Preliminary Release of COVID-19 Race Data

Lawyers' Committee for Civil Rights Under Law

National Civil Rights Group and Hundreds of Medical Professionals Call on the Trump Administration and States to Release Racial Data for COVID-19 Tests, Cases and Outcomes

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

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Juan Declet-Barreto

Heat Wave and COVID-19 Clash: Tens of Millions of People at Risk in States Seeing COVID Spikes

Julian Agyeman, Kofi Boone

Land Loss Has Plagued Black America Since Emancipation—Is It Time to Look Again at ‘Black Commons’ and Collective Ownership?

Brian Wakamo

Instead of Bailing Out For-Profit Colleges, Congress Should Cancel Student Debt

Rick Claypool

Will Corporate Accountability Be the Next Coronavirus Casualty?

David Masciotra

Bruce Springsteen’s Ballad of Brutality, "American Skin"

Esha Bhandari, ReNika Moore

Coronavirus 'Immunity Passports' Are Not the Answer

Robert C. Koehler

Racism and the National Soul

Jesse Jackson

The Murder of Ahmaud Arbery—And Our Continuing Terror

Derrick Z. Jackson

The Push to Relax COVID-19 Protections Exposes Age-Old Racial Wounds

Heidi Shierholz

Nearly One in Five Workers Applied for State Unemployment Insurance Benefits in the Last Seven Weeks