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The neutrality vote “represented members’ appreciation for two candidates, Senators Sanders and Warren, who rallied with us in our union hall and stood with us on picket lines,” Ronnie Reese said in a statement.

He boarded a whites-only train car in New Orleans with the hope of getting the attention of the Supreme Court. But it would be a long time before he got justice.

That’s the whole reason why we have a Presidential Records Act, to prevent Watergate-style cover-ups. More of us need to start paying attention, because this White House is being allowed to destroy evidence about things that we may never know about.

The order forbids “artists, architects, engineers, art or architecture critics, members of the building industry” and anyone else involved with this kind of work from participating in these panels.

Workers counting on Trump to deliver a “great American comeback” have been left waiting at the station.

We laugh even before we can speak, but why? Science has some answers to the mystery of human laughter, and some of them might surprise you

This month the most extremist elements of Europe’s radical right will mobilize in marches, concerts, and remembrances of the defeat of Nazi Germany. They are also hoping an election in Slovakia, will provide them with a victory at the ballot box.

Brazil’s ex-president talks about memory, camaraderie, resistance, and politics 50 years after her political incarceration.

A dictatorship-era torturer is suing one of his victims in Brazil in a stark reminder of how Bolsonaro emboldens rights abusers.

February 3rd marked the 150th anniversary of the ratification of the 15th Amendment, which was adopted to give Black people access to the ballot after the defeat of the slavocracy. We can honor the amendment by fighting to keep its promise.