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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.

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.

After the nine-day strike, West Virginia teachers won a 5 percent pay increase.

Professor responsible for concept spotlighted in McDormand’s acceptance speech tells the Guardian how it can boost diversity.

FCC snafu; Net fight goes on; Targeting telecoms; Who uses what; Dog bites man; Great firewall

West Virginia shows that we can fight back and win. We talk to two teachers to assess the tentative settlement and what comes next.

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

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

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.

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.