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

After Career Full of Racist Remarks, GOP Finally Gets Around to Punishing Rep. Steve King

Julia Conley, staff writer

"I'm sorry but how are Republicans just now discovering that Steve King says racist things?"

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After 200 Attempts Over a Century, Senate Makes What 'Should Be an Obvious Choice,' Recognizing Lynching as a Federal Crime

Julia Conley, staff writer

"Lynching is part of the dark and despicable aspect of our country's history...

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Confirming Women's Experience of Harassment, 'Troll Patrol' Study Reveals Twitter Flooded With Misogyny and Abuse

Julia Conley, staff writer

"Women of Twitter, it's every bit as bad on here as you think."

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U.S. President Donald Trump (R) looks at Russian President Vladimir Putin (L) during the family photo at the G20 Summit's Plenary Meeting in Buenos Aires, Argentina, November, 30,2018.

Civil Rights Group Says Senate Report on Election Interference Shows Russia 'Taking a Page Out of the US Voter Suppression Playbook'

Celebrating a Congress That Looks 'Like America,' Ilhan Omar Shrugs Off Right-Wing Islamophobic Rant

GOP Voter Suppression Architect Thomas Farr Goes Down After Grassroots Uproar Forces Tim Scott to Reject "Dangerous" Nominee

Republican attorney Thomas Farr speaking on Sept. 20,2017 before the Senate Judiciary Committee. (Screengrab: C-Span)

Call Your Senators Now, Say Civil Rights Groups, to Stop 'Vote Suppressor-in-Chief' From Getting Lifetime Federal Judge Seat

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In Apparent First, Lone San Francisco 49ers Cheerleader Takes a Knee During the National Anthem

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

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

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

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

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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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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

Laura Flanders

WTF White Women?

Praveen Fernandes

Forced Classification, Biological Determinism, and Sad Chapters From Our Nation’s History

Meghan Tinsley

Civil Rights and Voter Suppression in the US

Christopher Brauchli

The Pot Addresses the Kettle

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