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Mantell Stevens is an activist, organizer, speaker, and lobbyist with Kentuckians for the Commonwealth, a grassroots social justice organization working on a number of issues, including ending Kentucky’s policy of lifetime disenfranchisement. Kentucky is one of only three states that continue to impose lifetime disenfranchisement, permanently barring citizens from the ballot box as a consequence for any felony conviction.

This latest move is one of many recent efforts by both the Trump administration and the GOP to target Black immigrants. Moderator's Note: Somali and Vietnamese immigrant communities are also now experiencing deportations.

Here are various articles concerning historic and strategic Palestinian prisoners struggle linked with solidarity actions and today's 69th Anniversary of the Palestinian Nakba.

What is the impact of “Buy American” fervor? Chris Brooks interviews Dana Frank, author of Buy American: The Untold Story of Economic Nationalism, about the history and impact of these campaigns.

The vote does not trigger a strike but does allow the staff's representatives in collective bargaining to call a walkout at any time.

The system that the Hulu series operates within shows there were laws to protect property, but not women and certainly not sex workers.

Answering three questions can help reveal how the “inheritance of acquired characteristic” fits into modern evolutionary theory.

The popularity of The Investigator in the United States is a gratifying sign that the American people are no more complacent about witch hunting than their ancestors were three hundred years ago in Salem, Massachusetts. Until now fear has temporarily immobilized them, as it did their forbears in New England. But one of the best antidotes to the paralyzing poison of fear is laughter. -- from the liner notes of The Investigator.

Black turnout declined dramatically; white turnout increased noticeably; and Latino and Asian American turnout went up even more. In the key swing states of Michigan, Wisconsin, and Pennsylvania, those shifts were especially strong. How strong? Without those shifts in turnout from various racial and ethnic groups, these pivotal states might have gone not to Trump but to Clinton — giving Clinton an electoral college victory.

Cutting corporate tax rates will not create jobs or boost incomes for the vast majority of American families -- the facts you need to shred the myths.