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The June 18 march will “be a generationally transformative declaration of the power of poor and low-wealth people and our moral allies to say that this system is killing all of us and we can’t…we won’t…WE REFUSE TO BE SILENT ANYMORE.”

George Floyd was committed to being a person that mattered. But he was also Black, so he could never catch a break. As he got older the police were always at the ready. The day Chauvin murdered him was not the first time he had met Chauvin.

The January 6 committee, Justice Department, and activists are diverging.

Parting company with almost every other U.S. big business, Microsoft says it won’t oppose employee unionization.

With three decisions this month, the Court could break the back of Washington’s authority over regulation. Then, the battles over some of America’s biggest issues shift to the states.

"People across the country—and across party lines—want corporate giants and their enablers held to account," says advocacy group, citing fresh survey data.

This author's apparent attempt to save the MAGA ideology from the far right, says reviewer Washington, "is in the end a dangerous nationalist concoction, based on an ideology that takes losers as a must and broadens existing divisions."

With the seemingly modest step of agreeing not to oppose workers' efforts to unionize, Microsoft has upended long-held assumptions about Big Tech's hostility to organized labor.

LGBTQ in Africa, Ecuador ablaze, and talk of stalemate in Myanmar

Thousands of municipal workers have won the right to form unions, but a new collective bargaining law stops short of allowing them to strike and the number of public employees now eligible to join a union falls well below what unions ultimately seek.