We wake up in a nation where Juneteenth and MLK Day are both national holidays—yet where an entire political party is working to prevent the teaching of the ugliness that precipitated the civil rights movement even existed.
Human Rights & Justice
Now a federal holiday, the roots of Juneteenth are based in local, grass-roots celebrations dating back to the Civil War. Once nearly forgotten, the rebirth of Juneteenth speaks to America’s ongoing struggle for racial equality.
Cecelia Lewis was asked to apply for a Georgia school district’s first-ever administrator job devoted to diversity, equity and inclusion. A group of parents — coached by local and national anti-CRT groups — had other plans.
Video evidence shows a sitting member of congress (Rep. Loudermilk) giving a tour to soon-to-be insurrectionists taking pictures of insignificant hallways and passages. The same insurrectionists later say they’re going to “drag Pelosi out by her hair.”
We know how easily a government can be toppled into fascism and how close we came in 2020: if just five Republicans had not refused to go along with Trump we'd be in this fascist dystopia today.
Columbine High School. Platte Canyon High School. Virginia Tech. Deer Creek Middle School. Aurora movie theater. Arapahoe High School. Santa Fe High School. ProPublica reporter Jenny Deam reflects on covering them all.
Gun lovers, I so wish you were as tired of this as I am. I wish thousands and thousands of deaths every year could move you enough to move. I wish you could tap into an empathy to eclipse your gun lust.
Some children didn’t come home in Uvalde, Texas and our politicians and many of our citizens barely lifted their heads beyond quick, empty thoughts and prayers tweets they think exonerate them from culpability and exempt them from action.
Despite evidence that the expiration of the US assault weapons ban in 2004 correlated with a rise in mass shootings, a new ban in the US is not on the negotiating table.
Protests at the NRA convention follow a Thursday demonstration by faith leaders outside the convention center as well as a walkout by students at scores of elementary, middle, and high schools across the country.
A study by RAND found that moving to a Medicare for All system would save a family with an income of less than $185,000 about $3,000 a year, on average.
In Texas, anti-abortion laws are creating uncertainties that may deter some doctors and other providers from offering optimal miscarriage treatment.
Reuters identified five law enforcement trainers who have been hired by police and sheriffs' departments nationwide despite their support for right-wing militia groups, including Oath Keepers, Proud Boys, Three Percenters and the QAnon conspiracy.
Justice Alito’s leaked opinion cites Sir Matthew Hale, a 17th-century jurist who conceived the notion that husbands can’t be prosecuted for raping their wives, who sentenced women to death as “witches,” and whose misogyny stood out even in his time.
If the Supreme Court does strike down Roe v. Wade, it will be the first time the Supreme Court would be setting a precedent to take away a constitutional right from Americans.
Roe v. Wade doesn’t just protect abortion rights. It’s the keystone that keeps politicians out of the most intimate aspects of our lives.