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This moving and profound portrait serves as a fitting biographical tribute as well as a piercing, often painful recount of African American history from slavery and the Civil War to the Jim Crow era, the Civil Rights movement and beyond.

If the bill is passed it would fundamentally alter the judicial independence of Hong Kong and signal the beginning of the end of the “one country, two systems” model.

Lawyers who visited a Border Patrol station in Clint, Texas, last week found hundreds of children living in intolerable conditions – hungry, deprived of basic needs and sleeping in concrete prison cells designed for adults.

And in addition to the 3 billionaires Bernie mentioned, we should also be worried about the expanding fortunes of multi-generational wealth dynasties

As the wealth gap has widened, income gains have remained anemic for Americans at all levels for the past decade. Many economists argue that what's needed is simply higher incomes so more Americans can save and build wealth.

We must hold these dual, overlapping realities in our minds, as we strive to comprehend the interrelated horrors to which the United States — not just Trump, but the United States — subjects millions of people every day.

No extent of reform can humanize an agency designed to criminalize migrants, deny their humanity, and profit off their detention and suffering. So Abolish ICE activists want to shut it down.

...decades of redlining and discrimination...pushed poor minorities into ghettos, gentrification is pushing them out. The paradox is...young liberals, whose ideals theoretically go against these phenomena, are in fact producing that very effect.

In other words, we’re talking about a national epidemic of self-inflicted deaths.