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The prevailing belief of the circumstances surrounding 14-year-old Emmett Till’s killing is that he was accused of whistling at a white woman. Yet, the truth is he was lynched as an act of voter intimidation.

At a time when American casualties in Vietnam were disproportionately African American, most of those who successfully made it to Canada were white.

After years of givebacks and autocratic leadership under James Hoffa Jr, the power of the Teamsters has withered. Rank-and-file activists are mobilizing against contract concessions, taking over locals and building a coalition to transform the union.

An organism living in ocean muck offers clues to the origins of the complex cells of all animals and plants.

For Native Americans, the census ‘impacts everything,’ from federal funding to political representation. But Native Americans have historically been undercounted; an estimated one in seven Native Americans were not counted in the 2010 US census.

The Citizenship Amendment Act is the latest repressive step the Indian government has taken against the country’s Muslim minority. By making religion a condition of citizenship, the act is devised to transform India into a Hindutva version of Israel.

Virginia has voted to ratify the Equal Rights Amendment. Although obstacles still exist, it bolsters activism for gender equality. And it marks a profound change in Virginia, a state that in the past had often been on the wrong side of history.

A voter purge in Wisconsin will disproportionately impact black voters, undermining the right to vote.

Why an annual Lobby Day has resulted in a state of emergency and online calls for a civil war.

As San Francisco’s top prosecutor for eight years, Hallinan hired women, minorities, gays and lesbians in unprecedented numbers, sought alternatives to prosecution for nonviolent crimes and declined to seek the death penalty for any capital case