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Attacks on the Women's March are counterproductive for everyone. The fight for social justice requires us to face and address together and compassionately the fundamental differences used to keep many communities apart and in fear of each other.

Reyna Grande on a Chance Encounter at the San Antonio Airport.

The Los Angeles teachers’ strike, organized by the 33,000 strong Unified Teachers Los Angeles, went into its fifth day Jan. 18.

A taut, twisty new series from Amazon and the BBC touches on race, class, immigration and terrorism.

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Martin Luther King Jr. courageously spoke out about the Vietnam War. We must do the same when it comes to this grave injustice of our time.

The president poked fun at a devastating massacre and reinforced racist, misogynistic stereotypes.

Access Living’s Coleman says that real change in the police department will require a culture shift. People need to stop “looking at disability as an ‘other’ community, but as a part of our human nature.”

There is probably no greater illusion in the field of national security than the idea of credible missile defense.

While plant species around the world will have to cope with warming temperatures and a changing climate, coffee is especially vulnerable to these changes.