Students look beyond gun control laws to prevent violence – and it’s working
As lawmakers argue over how best to address school shootings, student clubs are focused on reducing youth violence at schools and in their communities.
Hurricane wars
Wake up folks and understand why many of us suffer unnecessarily.
Segregation academies across the South are getting millions in taxpayer dollars
Segregation academies that remain vastly white continue to play an integral role in perpetuating school segregation—and, as a result, racial separation in the surrounding communities.
Supreme Court denies Trump administration’s ban on asylum for immigrants who illegally cross
The trump administration's ban conflicts with current immigration law.
Calling for an ‘end to violence,’ Bernie Sanders becomes first 2020 democratic presidential contender...
“I am very concerned about what appears to be a coup in Bolivia, where the military, after weeks of political unrest, intervened to remove President Evo Morales.”
Justice Department wants Supreme Court to put a halt to youth climate lawsuit
About a week before the groundbreaking constitutional youth climate lawsuit heads to trial, the Department of Justice is trying to have the Supreme Court...
NRA: Why Can’t We Outlaw Guns Meant for Terrorists?
It's not only in the U.S. that these combat weapons—that is, arms developed for use on the battlefield—are being used against innocent, defenseless civilians. Shame, shame, shame.
Journalist tests ICE recruitment; surprised to find herself hired with no background check
It seems like the answer to the question, 'Who are they hiring?' is: They don’t know.”
Poor People’s Campaign marches on Washington to ‘blunt the political effects of wealth inequality’
West Virginia and Kentucky activists vow to continue pressing Manchin and McConnell on democracy and economic reforms.
“Movements work”: As activists occupy Seattle’s capitol hill, city bans tear gas, expels police...
Seattle has become the first city in the nation to win a comprehensive ban on the use and purchase of chemical weapons and other barbaric weapons used against protest movements, so tear gas, mace and pepper spray, rubber bullets, flashbang grenades, water cannons, ultrasonic weapons.