20 ways you can help immigrants now
Immigrant children are dying in federal custody. Children in detention are being denied basic supplies like soap and blankets—and the Trump administration says...
Florida cop with racist, violent history named officer of the year
Mills has been the subject of more than 15 civilian complaints between 2012 and 2015.
Former state senator pleads guilty to bribery and tax fraud charges
Former Arkansas State Senator Jeremy Hutchinson pleaded guilty Tuesday in federal court to accepting multiple bribes and falsifying his tax returns in order to conceal his crimes. The former state senator is also expected to plead guilty of accepting bribes in a separate...
Trump admin moves 100 migrant kids back to “child jail” despite concern over inhumane...
The Department of Homeland Security has moved 100 migrant children back to a Border Patrol facility in Clint, Texas, where infants and...
Independent investigation by inspector general slams NYPD for continued biased policing six years after...
Report on Biased Policing Recommends CCRB Take Over Investigation of Racial Profiling Complaints
Wednesday, June 26, 2019, New...
Hundreds of youth activists sit at the DNC headquarters demanding 2020 debate on climate...
Hundreds of youth activists held a sit-in at the DNC headquarters yesterday demanding a climate change presidential debate be a top priority.
US poverty statistics ignore millions of struggling American
Who counts as poor in the U.S. today?
Measuring the share of the population that experiences poverty is important...
NYT presents social security cuts as ‘solution’ to problem of social security cuts
It’s hard to improve on economist and FAIR contributor Dean Baker’s observation that corporate media’s calls for cuts to programs for the elderly under...
Japanese-American internment survivors protest plan to jail migrant kids at Fort Sill, a WWII...
"There’s a historical pattern of detention and separation of families that we’re seeing across the United States, affecting immigrant communities and affecting communities of color."