Ramzy Baroud
IDF soldiers deployed during "Operation Protective Edge." (Photo: IDF/flickr/public domain)
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Karen Dolan
It may come as a surprise to some that, until now, the federal government allowed employment discrimination based on someone’s sexual orientation or gender identity. (Photo: Shutterstock)
Mesha Jefferson
Black Lives Matter demonstrators in DeLand, Florida (Photo: Shutterstock)
Andrea Germanos, staff writer
The veteran activist has been described as "simply a man that shows up to stand for peace and justice."
Jessica Corbett, staff writer
Longtime labor rights advocate Sen. Bernie Sanders on Wednesday welcomed the announcement that retail giant Target will permanently raise the starting wage for all hourly full-time and part-time workers at U.S. stores, distribution centers, and headquarters locations to $15 per hour beginning July 5.
Mimi Kennedy, Steven Rosenfeld, & Alan Minsky
Activists are winning no-excuse mail voting and COVID-19-excuse mail voting in many states. (Photo by JASON REDMOND/AFP via Getty Images)
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Eoin Higgins, staff writer
"Our country sacrificed the lives of meat workers to protect the business of meat companies."
Jake Johnson, staff writer
"Use of these tools to monitor protesters is having a chilling effect against those exercising their constitutional rights to assemble and express their views."
Jeff Cohen
At every stage in U.S. history—beginning with the brutal dispossession of Native Americans and continuing through modern methods of injustice from redlining to mass incarceration and private prisons—U.S. racism has been inextricably embedded in the system of profiteering. (Photo: Jörg Kantel/flickr/cc)
Robert Shetterly
Demonstrators march on Constitution Avenue near the Dirksen Senate Office Building during a protest against police brutality and racism on June 6, 2020 in Washington, D.C. (Photo: Chip Somodevilla/Getty Images)
Julia Conley, staff writer
Jamaal Bowman's campaign in New York's 16th congressional district urged supporters to keep up his recent momentum on Wednesday as new polling showed the former middle school principal 10 points ahead of 16-term incumbent Rep. Eliot Engel.
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Adam Eichen, Evelyn Li
Despite our self-identification as a country teeming with liberty, we harshly cast those incarcerated—who are disproportionately people of color—to the margins and subject them to a range of indignities, from physical abuse to essentially unpaid labor. (Photo: Derek Goulet/cc/flickr)
Jessica Corbett, staff writer
"We must curb the high risk trade and consumption of wildlife, halt deforestation and land conversion, as well as manage food production sustainably."
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Jake Johnson, staff writer
"You have the power to help us get justice for my brother George Floyd. I am asking you to help him. I am asking you to help me. I am asking you to help us—black people in America."
Jim Hightower
An unexpected and profound impact of today's horrific coronavirus crisis is that it is quietly prompting a societywide recalibration of the rocky road our nation's power elites have put us on. (Photo: iStock/sv_sunny)
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Jake Johnson, staff writer
"The excluded small business owners are more likely to be Black and Latinx because of bias in our criminal legal system, and their communities are hardest hit by Covid-19. We won't stop fighting until this economic lifeline is afforded to all."
