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Yusef Salaam has gone from being falsely accused and convicted of rape and murder—with Trump calling for his execution—to exonerated and winning his primary for New York City Council.

After leaking the Pentagon Papers in 1971, Daniel Ellsberg expected to spend the rest of his life in prison, a fate he avoided because of the incompetence and abuse of power by Nixon staffers.

Abraham Lincoln's immortal Gettysburg Address is a fitting tribute for the remembrance today of those who have fallen in defense of this nation, from enemies without and within.

Woody Guthrie once wrote, “The Housewives of the country are always afraid at nite, afraid they’s a robber in the house. Nope, Milady most of em is in the Senate.”

For more than a half-century, Belafonte carried on the legacy of the 1960s. Like few others, he blended the worlds of culture and politics, singing a song of justice.

No matter how much the defenders of the militaristic status quo have tried to relegate Daniel Ellsberg to the past, he has insisted on being present.

Cavanaugh has spent every day in session since an anti-trans bill targeting children arrived on the Senate floor introducing dozens of amendments to other pieces of legislation, slowing the Senate's business to a crawl.

Jimmy Carter is best known for America's longest, finest, most big-hearted post-presidency, building over 40 years a purposeful life of service that became his greatest legacy.

Diabetes activists have been wary of Diabetics groups that receive money from drug makers. Using social media and focusing messages with hashtags became an effective strategy.

Election officials have little control over election rules. They’re not lawmakers. But they are under enormous demand, poorly paid and sometimes have their lives threatened.

Satellites can offer forecasters a basic view, but hurricane hunters flying into the storm itself can really pick the hurricane apart.

The majority of front-line Ukrainians surveyed viewed the idea of Russia keeping seized Ukrainian lands as “absolutely unacceptable.”

Without Mikhail Gorbachev the political changes surrounding South Africa would not have taken place, and without them it is unlikely that De Klerk would have moved as he did, unbanning the ANC and freeing Mandela.

RIP Medical Debt is freeing patients of medical debt, thousands of people at a time—buying bundles of delinquent hospital bills and then simply erasing the obligation to repay them.

Nichelle Nichols almost left Star Trek during the original seasons due to racist harassment at the studio. But a fan, Dr. Martin Luther King, saying that Star Trek was the only TV show he approved of—because of her role—convinced her to stay.