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From Raleigh to Los Angeles, communities on the frontlines are building the movement infrastructure for a coordinated fightback.

Communities of color in Chicago meticulously documented the CPD's pattern of racist violence.

Communities of color in Chicago meticulously documented the CPD's pattern of racist violence.

There are nearly 29,000 DOD contractors in Afghanistan.

Protesters taking to the streets today say that police violence against black residents of Milwaukee remains systemic. “You see anger, just the anger and the frustration of a community that has suffered atrocities and oppression on behalf of what they deem to be the police oppressive system, that has never seemingly been held accountable for taking the life, like the young man said, of their loved ones,” Muhibb Dyer, a community activist said.

Minneapolis is a case study in how police hate speech fosters a climate of violence.

“The Art of the Deal” made America see Trump as a charmer with an unfailing knack for business. Tony Schwartz helped create that myth—and is tormented by the role he played in doing so.

A shocking new reports exposes rampant discrimination and denial of life-saving treatment in 1 of 6 hospital beds.

As wealth becomes concentrated in fewer hands, so does political and social power via foundations and non-profits. In the January issue of the New York Review of Books, veteran journalist Michael Massing noted that, in the past 15 years alone, “the number of foundations with a billion dollars or more in assets has doubled, to more than eighty.” A study by the watchdog organization Global Policy Forum, finds that foundations are so powerful they bypass governments and UN.

Released Tuesday by Monmouth University, the poll found that Sanders has 53 percent support in the state, compared to 39 percent backing Clinton. Notably, the survey concludes that Sanders now has an edge over Clinton with women voters, at 50 percent to 44 percent respectively. This lead reverses Sanders' 37 percent to 56 percent deficit among women in an identical Monmouth poll taken just two months ago.