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NYPD Must #FirePantaleo Now, Eric Garner's Family Says After DOJ Announces It Will Not Prosecute Officer Accused of Using Chokehold

Trump Denounced for 'Incitement to Violence' Against Ilhan Omar After Latest Racist Attack on Congresswoman

Julia Conley, staff writer

House Speaker Nancy Pelosi calls on representatives to formally condemn Trump's comments

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Progressives Push Back After Congressional Black Caucus Attacks Justice Democrats Over Primary Challenges

Eoin Higgins, staff writer

Rep. Ayanna Pressley (D-Mass.) speaks at a rally on October 1, 2018 in Boston. Pressley's primary campaign against then-incumbent Mike Capuano was in the news Friday as members of the CBC were taken to task over their support of her white opponent.

"This is a democracy and voters deserve choices."

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'The Damage Has Been Done': Despite Court Ruling, Experts Say Trump Succeeded in Making Immigrant Communities Fearful of Census

Julia Conley, staff writer

"We came here to work, just to work, and it is better to keep the door closed...

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Marshae Jones

'Terrifying' and 'Unacceptable': Outrage Mounts Over Manslaughter Charge for Alabama Woman Who Miscarried After Being Shot in the Stomach

Advocates Push for Structural Reforms at House Hearing on Reparations for Slavery and Racial Injustice

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'Coalition Against Death Alley' Kicks Off 5-Day March for Environmental Justice in Louisiana's Petrochemical Corridor

Watch: Congresswoman Pressley Presses Mnuchin to Explain Delay of Harriet Tubman's $20 Bill

Sanders Campaign Unveils 'Gold-Standard' Blueprint for Combating Sexual Harassment and Discrimination on 2020 Campaign

Warren Wins Applause for Addressing High Black Maternal Mortality Rates, But Experts Say Plan to Fix Crisis Needs Work

Sen. Elizabeth Warren announces her run for re-election to the U.S. Senate in February 2018.

'A Really Exciting Proposal': Warren Plan Would Wipe Out Student Debt, Provide Free Public College

Thousands Join Ben & Jerry's to Demand Criminal Justice Reform, Extending Benefits of Cannabis Legalization to Communities of Color

Snubbing UN and Fight Against Racism, Trump Admin Blocks Seat on Key Committee From Being Filled

The front page of Tuesday's report on solving racial inequality.

Report Offers 10 'Broad and Targeted' Solutions to Racial Wealth Inequality in US

Calls for Probe Into White Supremacy and Domestic Terrorism After Arrest for Arson Attacks on Black Churches

Critics to Mike Pence, US Marine Corps, and the CIA: Sorry, Martin Luther King Jr. Does Not Belong to You

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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

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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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Peter Bloom, Pasi Ahonen

The Dangerous Truth about Trump’s Racism: White Power, Elite Rule, and Justified Privilege

Julie Hollar

Why Does WaPo See Black as an 'Identity'—but Not Multi-Millionaire?

Xavier Best

Decades After False Convictions, 'When They See Us' Highlights Media Failure

Jackson Koeppel

Organizing for Energy Democracy in the Face of Austerity

Eve Ottenberg

Gentrification, School Closings, and Displacement in Chicago

Leanna First-Arai

Why Students of Color Are Stepping Up to Lead Climate Strikes

Dorinne Kondo

Oscars 2019: Beyond the Stats, Why Diversity Matters

Ana Suda

Border Patrol Detained Me for Speaking Spanish in Montana. Then My Town Turned Against Me.

Musa al-Gharbi

Kamala Harris and the Rest of Us Will Regret Portraying Civil Rights as a National Security Issue

Sue Sturgis

The Corporations That Helped a Confederate Apologist Hold a Senate Seat