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Metro Nashville City Council votes to prohibit investments in private prisons

This past Tuesday, Metro Nashville City Council members passed a resolution that would prohibit the city... more

by Isra Ibrahim

Social media calls out France’s racism, islamophobia after 2018 World Cup win

Elon Musk faces growing criticism over his contributions to Republican Political Action Committees

Tens of thousands protest Trump visit in London

The NFL Player’s Association officially challenges league’s anthem policy with grievance

Ethiopia and Eritrea end 20 year conflict with peace summit

Calls to #AbolishICE are counterproductive unless they are also a call to #AbolishPolice

The FCC continues its war on internet access for Native Americans

Disgraced Scott Pruitt resigns from EPA, but his replacement could be just as bad for the environment

Meet the Black immigrant woman who climbed the Statue of Liberty to protest I.C.E.

Leftist who promised to take on corruption and the establishment wins Mexico presidency in a landslide

The hypocrisy of defending Maxine Waters against calls for civility while shaming Black non-voters

Thousands gathered across the country this weekend to protest Trump’s immigration policies

9 protestors arrested at Portland ICE facility as immigration protests spread nationwide

Democratic socialist Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez upsets high-ranking official in NY primary. What’s next?

SCOTUS reverses lower courts decisions, sides with Trump’s Muslim travel ban in 5-4 vote

Nancy Pelosi, Democrats turn on Maxine Waters following her appeal to publicly shame Trump administration

Sarah Huckabee Sanders was kicked out of restaurant, Maxine Waters says, “Good!”

European Union seeks compromise on immigration during emergency session

The mayors and governors using their political sway to stall Trump’s immigration policies

White supremacist “Unite the Right” rally approved for second anniversary in D.C.

Trump’s new order ending family separations will just detain undocumented families indefinitely

U.S. pulls out of UN Human Rights Council citing anti-Israel “chronic bias”

5 undocumented migrants killed in Sunday police chase

What do we need for a new freedom?: A proudly fat, disabled, bisexual enby’s vision for #Juneteenth

Southern Baptists signal move away from conservatism with election of youngest president in 37 years

Spain’s new Socialist government will accept 600 migrants after Italy turns asylum seekers away

A look inside the converted Walmart that shelters over 1,400 migrant children as detentions boom

SCOTUS rules voters can be purged from Ohio rolls if they don’t respond to a notice after missing 1 vote

New concerns over shifting costs to patients as private equity firms gobble up health care providers

Jeff Sessions says domestic violence is not grounds for asylum in the U.S.

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