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Defunding Clinics, GOP Governor "Throws Women Under the Bus" in South Carolina

Planned Parenthood supporters

Charleston Shooter Gets Nine Life Sentences, Likely Ending Case

Nadia Prupis, staff writer

Victim's daughter tells Dylann Roof in court, "This chapter in my life...is closed. I will not open that book again. I just want to say, have mercy on your soul"

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Lawmakers Feel the Heat as Resistance Shows Up in Droves to Town Halls

Deirdre Fulton, staff writer

"This is what the resistance looks like," Democratic Rep. Mark Pocan wrote Saturday on Twitter. (Photo: Rep. Mark Pocan/Twitter)

Overflow crowds and tough questions marked Saturday's Congressional recess...

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'Truths Not Tweets': Protesters Greet Trump at Boeing Plant

Nadia Prupis, staff writer

One of the speakers read the 1986 letter by Coretta Scott King that opposed now...

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Transgender Community Faces 'Attacks on Humanity' in Six More States

An 'Abomination' of Justice: Mistrial Declared Over Police Shooting of Walter Scott

Sending Novice Haley to UN, Trump Clears Path for Loyalist in South Carolina

Florida Coast Braces as Deadly Hurricane Matthew Nears Shore

'Like Visiting a Cemetery': Millions of Honeybees Dead After Zika Pesticide Spraying

2016 Election Lawsuit Tracker: The New Election Laws and the Suits Challenging Them

'This is History': Police Officer Indicted on Federal Charges in Walter Scott Killing

Sanders Says Campaign 'Just Beginning' as Clinton Wins South Carolina

'A Movement for the Many': Clinton Labor Secretary Reich Endorses Sanders

Linking Clinton Policies to Poverty, Sanders Lays Out Plan to Help Nation's Poor

'Wake Up, South Carolina!' Endorsing Sanders, Spike Lee Slams Rigged System

Inevitability or Electability? Sanders Reminds Voters He Can Trounce Trump

Newswire

ACLU

ACLU Challenges Unconstitutional Debtors’ Prison Practices in South Carolina County

ACLU

ACLU Challenges South Carolina ‘Disturbing Schools’ Law

NAACP

LDF and South Carolina Leaders Ask U.S. Attorney General Loretta Lynch to Open Federal Investigations in the Aftermath of the Police Killing of Walter Scott and the Emanuel Nine Massacre

NAACP

NAACP Applauds South Carolina State Legislature for Voting to Remove Confederate Battle Flag

Color of Change

ColorOfChange Calls on South Carolina Legislators to Vote Immediately to Remove the Confederate Flag

Institute for Public Accuracy (IPA)

South Carolina Church Killings and Roots of White Supremacy

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Views

Chase Strangio

Legislatures Gear Up to Target Transgender People. We Gear Up to Fight Back.

Chris Kromm

From Charleston to Orlando, Sanctuary and Struggle in the South

Richard Eskow

For Nine Souls in Charleston, One Year Later

Robert Borosage

South Carolina: Clinton’s 'Firewall' Holds

Derrick Z. Jackson

Hillary Clinton’s Black Conversion

Cornel West

Why Brother Bernie Is Better for Black People Than Sister Hillary

Michelle Alexander

Why Hillary Clinton Doesn’t Deserve the Black Vote

Aki Soga

How Bernie Sanders Can Win the Black Vote

Kerry Taylor

How Local Workers Brought Fight for $15 Agenda to South Carolina Democratic Debate

Alyssa Peterson, Melissa Boteach

What South Carolinians Think About Ryan’s Poverty Forum

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