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In the fall of 2010, at a table in Danbury’s prison yard, five women decided that incarcerated and formerly incarcerated women needed to be part of the process of drafting and advocating for legislation that affects their lives and freedom. And so was started the real life organization, Families for Justice as Healing.

Bill had called for disclosure of 'noncombatant civilians' killed. The removal of the drone transparency requirement is the latest in a pattern by legislators to preserve the status quo surrounding the strikes.

Protesters rally at Capitol building to call for increase to minimum wage and an end to corporate giveaways.

The secretary of state said that if Israel doesn’t make peace soon, it could become ‘an apartheid state,’ like the old South Africa. Jewish leaders are fuming over the comparison.

Paul Robeson Jr., who worked to preserve the legacy of his father, died on Saturday in Jersey City. He was 86.

The public Massachusetts Bay Transit Authority's bus costs are out of control, according to the ALEC-affiliated Pioneer Institute's 2013 report on the Massachusetts Bay Transit Authority's (MBTA) bus maintenance costs.

Odds remain low that Congress will raise the $7.25 federal minimum wage anytime soon.In the meantime, many states - and a few cities - have made moves to raise their own minimum wages over the next year.

Do people (and animals) make better decisions in groups than on their own? How many people (and what conditions) does it take to make an best decision?

Today’s hostile takeover of three of our neighborhood school communities by the mayor’s handpicked Board of Education makes it quite clear that there is a war on older, African-American teachers and administrators, as well as the school communities in which they serve. … CTU president Karen Lewis

Prisoners’ advocates call the reforms a step forward, but they don’t address discrimination in presidential pardons or apply to everyone serving harsh sentences from outdated guidelines.