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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

Jake Johnson, staff writer

"NFL players have continuously defined what they're protesting: white supremacy, police brutality, and racial injustice. You're not listening."

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

Jake Johnson, staff writer

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

"We can't fundamentally reform our criminal justice system if we don't change...

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

Jake Johnson, staff writer

"In the year 2018, in the United States, we should not continue having a '...

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

With Recent Events Reminiscent of Nation's "Darkest Chapters," #LivingWhileBlack Victims Demand Congressional Hearings

Though White Americans Benefit Most From Social Safety Net, Study Shows How Racial Resentment Can Fuel Welfare Opposition

'One Down. One to Go': Michael Moore Hints at Project Aimed at Roseanne and Trump's Shared Racism

40+ Rights Groups Demand Homeland Security Release Unredacted 'Race Paper' Used to Justify Spying on Justice Activists

Black Defendants Face Harsher Sentences From GOP-Appointed Judges, Study Finds

'Time for a Moral Confrontation': Poor People's Campaign Launches With Local Rallies Nationwide

Kyle Duncan speaking on Nov. 29, 2017 to the Senate Judiciary Committee hearing on his nomination by President Donald Trump to be judge of the 5th Circuit Court of Appeals. (Photo: CSPAN)

Confirmation of Latest Right-Wing Judge for Lifetime Post 'Should Send Shockwaves Across the Nation'

Results of an independent autopsy on Friday debunk the police assertion that Stephon Clark was facing and advancing towards the officers. (Photo: Stephen Melkisethian/flickr/cc)

Protests Continue Over Killing of Stephon Clark as Autopsy Reveals Officers Shot Him in the Back

Demonstrators march during the Peoples Climate March on Sept. 21, 2014. (Photo: Annette Bernhardt/flickr/cc)

New Study on Air Pollution Shows How Environmental Injustice Runs Rampant Across the Nation

With Cleveland Indians to Drop Racist Logo, Eyes on Washington 'Redskins'

2016 ballot

'Deeply Disturbing': Trump's Defunct Election Commission Wanted Hispanic Voter Data Flagged in Texas

Further

Kaepernick vs. Trump: Making America Great Again

Kaepernick vs. Trump

Newswire

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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Views

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

Janine Jackson

Before Trump Pardoned Him, Arpaio Was Promoted by Media

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