ACLU & NAACP: Jeff Sessions unfit for post defending civil rights & enforcing laws...
Trump’s pick has drawn widespread outrage because of Sessions’s opposition to the Voting Rights Act, support for anti-immigration legislation and history of making racist comments.
How data-driven storytelling helps good causes get funded
Nonprofits play a crucial role in holding communities together, and combining powerful stories with real data is essential to securing the support they need to continue making a difference.
Portland rejects proud boys & other ultra-right groups as Trump tries to criminalize Antifa
A crowd of white nationalists took to the streets of Portland, Oregon, over the weekend for what they dubbed the “End Domestic...
Labor Day 2017: Working families move closer to paid parental leave
For the nation’s poor working parents, the absence of paid leave is only the visible top of an iceberg of workplace challenges.
Independent review released after police fracture elderly woman’s arm
According to the assessment, staffing shortages at the police department are leading to fatigue and frustration, while the quality of law enforcement has declined due to policies pushing officers to increase the number of arrests and citations.
Correctional officers plead guilty to beating handcuffed inmate and attempted cover-up
“These defendants knowingly violated the constitutional rights of an inmate and then lied to cover it up, thereby abusing the powers that the public entrusted to them.”
Time to rein in the super rich
The voice of the people needs to be heard. Not through violence but consistent demand en mass.
Supreme Court extends life of DACA in 5-4 ruling
"We took our power to the streets, the hallways of Congress, to the highest court in the land and we won."
Acidifying oceans a bad trip for marine ecosystems
A new study is one of the few to investigate what ocean acidification might do to fish communities.
How Summer of Heat on Wall Street is using disruption to end fossil fuel...
This is the main focus of the Summer of Heat on Wall Street, a sustained campaign of nonviolent civil disobedience against financiers like Citigroup.