Texans exhale as legislative session ends
In Texas, labor's victories consist not in getting legislation passed, but in stopping some of the worst of the worst.
Today in history: first AIDS cases reported in 1981
In its earliest phase, very little was known about transmission, and public anxiety grew, sometimes reaching hysterical proportions.
Today in history: Zoot Suit riots rock L.A.
In 1943, simmering racial unease exploded as hundreds of white sailors stationed in Los Angeles stormed into East L.A. and began beating Hispanics.
Indigenous news: May 27 to June 3
A recent event at Oak Flat Campground featured Apache rhymers and their colleagues from Dine (Navajo), Ogala Lakota, Sicangu Lakota, and Yaqui cultures.
Labor led coalition wins victories in Philly primary
The city's labor movement came together to nominate James Kenney as the Philly Democrats' mayoral candidate this November.
Partisan ruling by Appeals Court blocks Obama immigration program
Immigrants' rights activists and their supporters, more organized and united than ever, vow not to be intimidated and to fight on.
Confederate flag buried belatedly in Florida
A park was the scene here on Memorial Day (May 25) of a symbolic ceremony of burial for the Confederate flag.
Today in history: LGBT Pride Month!
Patrons at the Stonewall Inn, being subjected to routine anti-homosexual harassment, fought back in an incident considered to be the birth of the gay rights movement.
Today in history: World War I vets demand relief
During the Great Depression, the "Bonus Expeditionary Force," a group of World War I veterans seeking to cash in their veterans' bonus certificates, arrived in D.C.
Nebraska lawmakers override governor’s veto and abolish death penalty
Lawmakers in the deep red state of Nebraska overrode their Republican governor's veto yesterday and abolished the death penalty.
