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In 1946, Viola Desmond insisted on sitting in the whites-only section of a Nova Scotia movie theater, and now she's being put on the $10 bill for her bravery.

In the late 1920s and early 1930s, the country carried out a wave of unconstitutional raids that affected as many as 1.8 million people.

Her suit is a reminder that it’s getting harder for powerful men to pay for women’s silence.

Frontier Communications workers throughout West Virginia are on strike after the Communication Workers of America and Frontier Communications could not come to an agreement for a new contract with CWA 142. The previous contract expired on March 3.

Yascha Mounk argues that democracy and liberalism are not synonymous and counsels Americans to look to the examples of Hungary, India and Turkey.

From the Harlem Renaissance to the Civil Rights Movement and beyond, powerful Black women writers have created a ripple effect, inspiring future generations of Black women to pen their own powerful narratives.

Teachers' unions say that charter schools, freed from many of the rules that govern traditional public schools, will divert funding from those schools while being free to pay teachers less, eliminate benefits, and kick out under-performing students.

History doesn't repeat itself, but in our dispute over immigrants in the country illegally and our predecessors' dispute over fugitive slaves, it takes no leap of logic or imagination to find the rhymes.

The Trump administration is intensifying its regime change efforts to potentially include torpedoing Venezuela's presidential election.

Stagnant wages, slow growth and high unemployment delivered the election’s populist uprising