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Geneticists have turned up intriguing links between DNA and the disease. Patients with Type A blood, for example, seem to be at greater risk.

Will Trump leave office if defeated? A law professor fears a meltdown this November.

Conrad Worrill was a writer, educator, founding member of the National Black United Front, former host of WVON program "On Target" and Crusader columnist.

To achieve . . . structural change will require the rapid development of new forms of leadership and new organizational structures for the protest movement.

“Can we come up with a situation where there are fewer killings, and fewer collateral consequences?”

The decision to hold “Live PD” and “Cops” comes as protests over police brutality continue across the nation following the killing of George Floyd by Minnesota police officers

The latest in an historically fraught relationship among police, labor and civil rights movement

Two pieces sum up the Court's decisions on Harris v. Quinn and Hobby Lobby. The first, from Constitutional Accuracy Center, describes how the Court has been ruling in favor of big business. The second, from BillMoyers.com, provides a round-up of commentary on the cases.

Keep one thing in mind: the rebellions of the past three years were led by Arab millennials, twentysomethings who have decades left to come into their own. Don’t count them out yet. They have only begun the work of transforming the region.

In the liberal political imagination, the Supreme Court is an institution that must vindicate principles rather than practice politics. As the philosopher Richard Rorty once acknowledged, liberals “turn to the judiciary as the only political institution for which we can still feel something like awe.