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Every Democrat in Congress voted against the 14th and 15th Amendments to the Constitution, which aimed to guarantee equal protection of the law and voting rights for freed slaves. The Lincoln-era Republican Party passed them anyhow.

"Wasteful spending at the Pentagon will do nothing to help our country recover from this pandemic."

Nearly six months to the day after self-proclaimed patriots inspired by then-President Donald Trump led a siege on Congress, what should patriotism look like?

The United Nations human rights chief urged nations to take action to root out systemic racism against people of African descent.

On February 25, 2021, China’s President Xi Jinping announced that his country of 1.4 billion people had pulled its people out of poverty as it is defined internationally.

The Supreme Court decision gutting what’s left of VRA shows how desperately For the People Act & John Lewis Voting Rights Act needed.

Scientists are not as surprised by the disaster, for numerous reasons. While none of them is necessarily the sole cause of the condo collapse, any one or a combination of them might be implicated in whatever other causes are eventually found.

Some 25 states have already enacted or are considering laws to ban teaching what they call “critical race theory” (“CRT”) in public schools, a concept that school officials around the country deny they even teach.

Through her writings, Elizabeth Martínez inspired, provoked, educated, strategized, organized and built cross-racial and cross-ethnic alliances, all in pursuit of social justice.

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