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There is a reason why Wall Street and all of corporate America likes immigration reform, and it is not, in my view, that they’re staying up nights worrying about undocumented workers in this country -- Bernie Sanders

In September 1965 a dozen or so members of Dr. Martin Luther King Jr.’s southern field staff moved into the West Side Christian Parish’s Project House in the heart of Chicago’s Near West Side, joining other volunteers already living there. Black and white, male and female, most of them still in their early twenties, they had already been tested by civil rights struggles in the South.

It took 150 years after America officially abolished slavery to get a national museum on the black experience.

Before developing perceptual constancy, three- to four-month-old babies have a striking ability to see image differences that are invisible to adults. They lose this superior skill around the age of five months

Guardian analysis of dozens of contracts revealed by hackers shows more than a third allow or require destruction of civilian complaint records

Insider jokes, hedge fund titans, financial jargon – creators have all the ingredients of a compelling financial suspense storyline.

What would compel a massive company to start helping its employees pay rent and attend college?

Three simple numbers that add up to global catastrophe - and that make clear who the real enemy is