Bayard Rustin LGBT coalition highlights civil rights leader’s role
The San Francisco chapter of the Bayard Rustin LGBT Coalition rallied to highlight the contributions of Rustin, an often-overlooked civil rights figure.
Feminist and Marxist: Dorothy Smith receives lifetime sociology award
At a national meeting this summer here, social theorist Dorothy E. Smith was awarded the Lifetime Achievement Award.
Manning gets 35 years, will seek White House pardon
A military judge sentenced Army Pfc. Bradley Manning to 35 years in prison for leaking hundreds of thousands of classified documents to WikiLeaks.
California prisoners’ hunger strike enters seventh week
As a hunger strike by California prison inmates entered its seventh week Aug. 19, authorities said some 130 inmates in six prisons are refusing meals.
The White House and “Cold War mentality”
President Obama told a Tonight Show audience Aug. 6 that there are times the Russians "slip back into Cold War thinking and a Cold War mentality."
Enshrine voting right in the Constitution
On August 5, 48 years ago, President Lyndon Johnson signed the Voting Rights Act, announcing, "This right to vote is the basic right without which all others are meaningless."
Hiroshima memory stirs call for peace
Peace activists joined many thousands of similar gatherings worldwide to remember the horror of the first atomic bomb dropped on Hiroshima in 1945.
Mass arrests at immigration protest spur coalition to remake America
In a jail cell in the nation's capital, top leaders of 40 powerful labor/progressive groups found they had plenty of time to hash out plans for essentially remaking America.
