Politics

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.

As the FCC’s Net Neutrality repeal goes into effect, states issue lawsuits to fight internet deregulation

The city of Houston is experimenting with land trust to fight gentrification

Distraught father kills himself in a jail cell after being separated from his family at border

Judge says a bar refusing service to Trump supporters is not “outrageous” conduct

ICE arrests 114 at Ohio gardening stores in one of the largest workplace raids in years

Kim Kardashian West lobbied to commute Alice Marie Johnson’s cruel sentence. Now she’s out.

It’s no surprise more women are being imprisoned as less men are. We need abolition, not reforms.

Urban planning pioneer Toni Griffin wins award after subverting rules to highlight segregation

In South Fulton, Georgia, where Black women hold all top offices, can they set a new model for law enforcement?

Supreme Court: Colorodo shop can’t be forced to serve gay couple, but ruling may not apply to similar cases

California city set to test basic income of $500 a month to fight income inequality

Study: GOP judges give Black people longer sentences, women shorter. What about Black women?

Betsy DeVos says schools can call ICE on undocumented students, activists push back

Democrats join GOP to pass oppressive “Blue Lives Matter” bill, punish critics of Israel

Toxic masculinity & guns: Mother of victim says daughter rejected shooter before Texas slaughter

Israel kills dozens of Palestinians protesting US Embassy move to Jerusalem

Education Dept declaws task force dedicated to investigating for profit college abuses

Bill that would mandate 10 years for injuring police introduced to Congress

George Zimmerman summoned for criminal stalking charges in Florida

We let Kanye get away with being Kanye for too long

Federal judge rules DACA is a lawful program, US must accept new applications

Charlene Carruthers stepping down as National Director of BYP100 at the end of the year

Cory Booker on Black people suffering under oppressive GOP governments: “We did it to ourselves”

Power restored to many Puerto Ricans after Wednesday blackout on island still reeling from hurricanes

Mignon Clyburn, hailed as the “conscience” of the FCC, resigns

Weed legalization highlights how progressive policies deceptively re-entrench anti-Black dynamics

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