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Despite heavy lobbying by the company, workers at the facility voted by a wide margin for a union. The win on Staten Island could herald a new era for labor unions in the United States.

Anyone passing through high school discipline will appreciate the fate of Brandon as told by his teacher, Missouri Laureate Maryfrances Wagner.

Researchers found that the combination of human encroachment with the warming contributed to the extinctions.

The abolition movement was an interracial radical social movement of disfranchised people, men and women, white and black, free and enslaved. Slave resistance lay at its heart. On this Juneteenth, it is important to recall that African Americans were not passive recipients of the gift of freedom but architects of their own liberation.

While there has recently been a push from advocates and policy -- makers alike to reexamine sentencing policy and practice, the negative impacts on former prisoners and people with felony convictions themselves and the economy as a whole will grow in scale unless the burgeoning reform trend continues and accelerates.

There goes the neighborhood.

Underutilized provisions of the National Voter Registration Act could help enfranchise millions of Americans.

As education activists draw attention to high rates of suspensions, racial disparities, and the “school-to-prison pipeline,” the political winds are shifting.

One of Orange Is the New Black's greatest accomplishments in Season 3 was exploring the Litchfield guards' inner lives just as deeply, richly, and with just as much complexity as it has the inmates' lives. Rather than set up a false dichotomy where the prisoners are the "good guys" who just got themselves into a bad situation and the guards are the monsters, Season 3 shows us that the guards have it tough, too. So tough, in fact, that they decide to unionize.