A Bold Shift to Make Public Schools Serve Poor Students
Last year, New York City began turning schools in poor neighborhoods into community schools—combining rigorous instruction and extracurricular enrichment with a broad social support system.
Innocent Family Sues NYPD For Kicking Them Out of Home
“It is disgraceful that the city is displacing people from their homes without due process.”
500 years is long enough! Human Depravity in the Congo
For more than 500 years, the Congo has been brutalized by the extraordinary violence inflicted by those who have treated the country as a resource – for slaves, rubber, timber, wildlife and minerals – to be exploited.
BREAKING: Dakota Access Pipeline nearly completed
Will Energy Transfer Partners obey the Department of Justice and Army Corps of Engineers orders?
Police officer suspended after ordering K-9 to bite man on video
“He wasn’t running. He wasn’t doing anything that would have the officers have used this type of force.”
How special elections could cost the Republicans
This week, Georgia heads to the polls. Last week, the GOP in Kansas barely earned a win.
New data tool details thousands of corporations profiting from US prison industry
Companies in the database are assigned a "harm score" based on their responsibility for and responsiveness to their human rights violations.
‘Just the next step’ toward justice for Tyre Nichols: Memphis police shutter SCORPION unit
Attorneys for Nichols' family called the move "appropriate and proportional" in response to his death and urged other cities to follow suit but also stressed that "misconduct is not restricted to these specialty units."
Sanders Celebrates as GMO Labeling Dark Act is Blocked in US Senate
"People have a right to know what they are eating…”
Progressive Briefing for Monday, October 1
Trump accused of rigging FBI's Kavanaugh probe, Sanders demands FBI investigate whether Kavanaugh committed perjury, Las Vegas strip to go dark on one-year anniversary of worst mass shooting in U.S. history, and more.