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

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

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

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

A longstanding humanitarian deal protected many from deportation – but a change in practice under Trump has torn families apart.

At the end of the Smithsonian Channel’s Lost Tapes: Malcolm X, Ossie Davis delivers a stirring eulogy for Malcolm X, the fallen Muslim minister and human rights activist. “And we will know him then for what he was and is,” Davis intones, “a Prince – our own black shining Prince!”

In the fall of 2017, radical anti-abortion activists debuted the Red Rose Rescues, bent on disrupting what they see as a stale political movement. Their goal is to be able to stop individual abortions without violating federal law. And so far, they are getting away with it.

Black undocumented immigrants have been at the unfortunate intersection of the Trump Administration’s anti-black, Islamophobic and xenophobic agenda. The issues surrounding immigration do not only live within the Latinx, Muslim and Asian communities. We need to stop working in silos and change the narrative to be more inclusive, concentrating on ALL communities in need of our attention. Immigration is a black issue.

For those who say people kill not gun, I would say what really kills is white privilege, not guns. We are living in a time, where a black kid could be shot by the police for holding a toy gun and young Muslims can be sent to life in prison for daring to think of a gun. At the same time, white folks are actually, buying and carrying, machine, and assault weapons, threatening and intimidating neighbors, teachers, friends and classmates under the watch eyes of our law enforcements, as in the latest shooting at Parkland High School in Florida.

At a community meeting last fall, we asked our members if they feared being pushed out of South Los Angeles. All hands were raised.