Rights & Justice

"People have been making trade-offs to pay for healthcare for years. Inflation has only made things worse as people are also now struggling with the high price of gas, food, and electricity," said the president of West Health, which conducted the new poll with Gallup.

"The pebble that he threw in the pond became a ripple, became a wave. And so, this will carry him on into eternity," said fellow Angola Three Black Panther Robert King. "He won't be forgotten."

"She's been kept from her family. From her wife. From her profession. From her friends," the activist pastor said of the U.S. Olympian jailed in Russia. "It's time for her to come home."

"The Department of Justice needs to step in to investigate immediately," said former Ohio state Sen. Nina Turner.

"If Julian Assange is not free, neither are we," said a protester at a Friday demonstration against the WikiLeaks founder's impending transfer. "None of us is free."

One progressive group called the proposal "a blatant attempt to whitewash history to fit a racist worldview."

"If people don't see the rage," said one woman at the protest, "nothing changes."

The United Nations is urging Haiti to address the food, water, and medicine shortages imperiling its incarcerated population.

"In this unprecedented moment, we must act urgently as if lives depend on it because they do," said Rep. Ayanna Pressley and 19 other Democratic congresswomen.

"Perpetrators must be held to account," said a spokesperson for the U.N. High Commissioner for Human Rights.