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WASHINGTON, DC–Wednesday, in response to the failed Senate vote to advance the Women’s Health Protection Action, the Lawyers’ Committee for Civil Rights...
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“Under the cloud of threatening war, it is humanity hanging from a cross of iron.” I truly wish these words of Ike, uttered seven decades ago, were no...
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LOS ANGELES, CA – Last week, the Center for Immigration Policy, the Aoki Center for Critical Race and Nation Studies, and the Southern Poverty Law Center filed...
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The Biden-Harris administration has announced that on May 23, it plans to end the Trump-era policy that has kept the southern U.S. border effectively closed to...
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Yes, it's That Day. Show of hands--who loves paying their federal taxes? No one?
OK, let's hear why not. Warning: I'm going to fact-check you....
I’m writing from Ethiopia, where the war that began in November 2020 continues, with the US backing their former puppet, the Tigrayan People’s Liberation Front (TPLF), who ruled Ethiopia with an...
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Washington, DC - Friday the Biden administration announced it will be granting Temporary Protected Status (TPS) to immigrants from Cameroon currently in the...
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WASHINGTON, DC – Today, Rep. Hakeem Jeffries (NY-08), Chairman of the House Democratic Caucus, and Rep. Maxine Waters (CA-43), Chair of...
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WASHINGTON – Today, Congresswoman Ayanna Pressley (MA-07) issued the following statement on the Biden Administration’s announcement that it would end the Title 42 policy...
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Americans “need to imagine their vote has an impact on policy, an illusion the media encourages them to believe in.”
Ouch!
Peter...
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Tuesday, President Joseph Biden signed into law the Emmett Till Antilynching Act, legislation which finally declares lynching a federal hate crime. The...
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President Joe Biden recently announced plans to "welcome up to 100,000 Ukrainians and others fleeing Russia's aggression" while providing $1 billion in humanitarian...
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Oakland, CA – Black Lives Matter has released a statement blasting President Joe Biden’s budget, which increases funding for policing to roughly $32 billion. The...
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In the follwoing piece, award-winning journalist Robert Koehler writes about legislation pending in Congress aimed at helping the...
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WASHINGTON – Today, Congresswoman Ayanna Pressley (MA-07) applauded the House passage of H.R. 2116, Creating a Respectful and Open World for Natural Hair (CROWN)...
Milton, are you denying or finding it insignificant that the TPLF attacked a federal army base...
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