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A just-unsealed file shows that the FBI extensively tracked Aretha Franklin’s civil rights activism, particularly her friendships with Martin Luther King, Jr., and Angela Davis.

Women are registering to vote in numbers I never witnessed before. The gender gap has skyrocketed. Every poll we consume over the closing weeks of this election will rely on a likely voter model for which we have no benchmark.

Queen Elizabeth II originally ruled over 32 countries, but her successor King Charles III is the monarch in 15. Could more countries now decide to go it alone?

Levy Restaurant Group, one of the largest providers of food and beverage for sports venues across the country has been sued in the past for wage theft. The blame lies with the USTA for continuing to do business with the company. 

We now have more income and wealth inequality than at any time in the last hundred years. And it’s not just income and wealth inequality that is plaguing our nation. It is the maldistribution of economic and political power.

“Ours in an old war,” says the poet Kathryn Bratt-Pfotenhauer. “It has a beard and calls itself Uncle.”

In her decision Monday, Cannon managed to cite the lone independent “statement” in a recent Supreme Court opinion from Justice Brett Kavanaugh, who wrote that a former president like Trump does retain some executive privilege.

Unity between labor and environmentalists are forged by fighting for local projects, as well as broader initiatives. Many environmental justice groups believe working-class communities shouldn't have to shoulder costs of a crisis they didn't create.

Of all the employers that have seen union drives over the past year, Chipotle—with 100,000 employees across 3,000 stores, and long-term plans to double its footprint in North America—is the most similar to Starbucks.

The Americans’ actions at the 1972 Games had echoes of Tommie Smith and John Carlos. But today their story has been largely forgotten. “The whole history of the Olympic movement is rife with antisemitism and racism,” said Harry Edwards