Congresswoman Eleanor Holmes Norton’s (D-DC) amendment to prohibit the Federal Bureau of Prisons (BOP) from collecting so-called “subsistence fees” in fiscal year 2021 from individuals in...
U.S. Congresswoman Joyce Beatty (OH-03) recently introduced the Congressman John R. Lewis Election Day Act of 2020.
This piece of legislation, H.R. 7820, would make...
Family of enslaved Africans. Georgia, 1850. Photo: Wikimedia Commons.
“Reparations is the order of the day.”-- Dr. Gerald Horne, historian and political scientist.
The December 12tth...
Today, former President Barack Obama endorsed Jamaal Bowman for Congress in New York’s 16th District, as part of his first round of endorsements for the 2020 cycle.
Bowman...
House leaders introduced legislation to address Trump's use of federal agents as secret police to target peaceful protesters.
The Chair of the House Committee on...
What is Donald Trump's objective in sowing the seeds of so much chaos before the 2020 Election?
“Is Donald Trump deliberately and consciously allowing COVID-19 to return in...
I think you have "Filtered HTML" turned on here. If you switch to "Full HTML," it will probably...
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