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Tuesday, January 25, 2022

Right-Wing Supreme Court Takes Up Challenge to Affirmative Action

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"We will vigorously defend access and opportunity in higher education," said head of civil rights legal group. JESSICA CORBETT Jan...
Monday, December 27, 2021

Archbishop Desmond Tutu, Defender of Human Rights in South Africa and Beyond, Dies at 90

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JULIA CONLEY December 26, 2021 Photo by Peter Williams, WCC Leaving behind a legacy  of fighting for oppressed people in South Africa and ar...
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Tuesday, December 21, 2021

Senate Slammed for Passing 'Bloated' NDAA But Delaying Build Back Better Act

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"Don't tell me we can't afford to fight poverty, cancel student debt, pass paid leave, and defeat the climate crisis," sai...
Monday, December 20, 2021

bell hooks will never leave us – she lives on through the truth of her words

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I was introduced to the work of bell hooks for the first time when I was 14 years old, sitting on my Nana’s porch, complaining about the mos...
Tuesday, December 7, 2021

Progressive Lawmakers to Biden: 'Cancel Student Loan Debt.' All of It. Now.

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  "Student loan payments resume in 61 days. Borrowers are NOT ready or able to restart them," said Democratic Congresswoman Pramil...
Friday, December 3, 2021

Vaccine apartheid is prolonging COVID – not vaccine hesitancy

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There’s a colonial tendency to portray people in Africa as anti-science and averse to progress, when the real problem is Big Pharma’s monopo...
Sunday, October 31, 2021

Details of the money behind Jan. 6 protests continue to emerge

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By  Anna Massoglia New details of how a top fundraiser for former President  Donald Trump ’s campaign “parked” funds with groups that helped...