Chicago mayor aims to aggressively privatize schools
The mayor's plan will affect 10,000 students, mostly Black and Latino, and result in the firing of 600 teachers, principals, building maintenance, cafeteria and other workers.
Routine teen-aged HIV test proposed by doctors
The Center for Disease Control has called for universal testing of all patients between the ages of 16 and 64. However, the U.S. Public Health Service has not endorsed the proposal.
Black labor leaders: Alabama’s immigration fight ground zero for civil rights
African American, civil rights and labor leaders visited Birmingham this week to see first hand how the state's new anti-immigrant law is impacting Latinos.
Evangelicals: Alabama's immigration law is anti-Christian, anti-American
National evangelical leaders who recently visited Alabama as part of an "emergency delegation" are denouncing the state's new anti-immigrant law.
SEIU's Medina predicts more Latino voter activism next year
Service Employees Secretary-Treasurer Eliseo Medina, a skilled organizer and one of the most influential Hispanic Americans in the labor movement, predicts Latino voters will have heightened activism in next year's election.
What happens to children after parents are detained and deported?
You're put in a detention center hundreds of miles away with absolutely no right to see your kids for months, sometimes years.
Labor group and an Ohio town call for new immigration approaches
A town in Ohio says that by rolling out a welcome mat for immigrants, rather than persecuting them, it can help solve the immigration problem and fix its economy at the same time.
Report: U.S. Border Patrol practices “A Culture of Cruelty”
The U.S. Border Patrol and its agents are consistently mistreating, abusing and violating the human rights of immigrant detainees in its custody.
Cook County passes historic immigrant rights ordinance
Cook County passed a major immigrant rights ordinance aiming to free undocumented immigrants being held in jails throughout the county.
Federal judge temporarily halts Alabama anti-immigrant law
A federal judge temporarily halted Alabama's anti-immigrant law - a measure so harsh that it makes Arizona's notorious law and its prejudice against Hispanics look mild by comparison.
