Super Bowl ads stir controversy
Advocates for women's rights and gay and lesbian equality are slamming CBS for ads it will and won't air during Sunday's Super Bowl.
Pentagon leaders say they favor gays serving openly
In a historic first, the Pentagon's top leaders called this week for an end to "don't ask, don't tell," the policy.
Melanie Shouse, health care activist, dies at 41
ST. LOUIS -- Melanie Shouse was 37 when she first felt the lump. She couldn't believe it. But she kept up her fighting spirit, especially for health care reform.
Communist Party and African American equality - a focus unequaled in U.S. history
A look at writings of leading African American members of the Communist Party USA on the struggle against racism over four decades.
Dallas re-lives its Black history
The Dallas Peace Center jump-started Black History Month by inviting the Rev. James Lawson, one of the most famous of Dr. Martin Luther King Jr.'s contemporaries in the civil rights movement, for a three-day tour.
Blackwater swamp keeps on bubbling
The Justice Department has begun a criminal fraud investigation of the company, its employees face criminal charges, but it keeps doing its dirty work under a tangle of names.
Senate moving toward smaller jobs bill
The jobs bill now being drafted in the Senate, only half the size of the one passed by the House in December, is "not enough."
Expect major changes in No Child law, officials say
The Obama administration is proposing major changes to the nation's No Child Left Behind education law.
‘This fracking sucks,’ concerned residents say
ITHACA, N.Y. - Residents in this town, known for its picturesque waterfalls, are protesting a plan to extract gas from the ground by a process known as horizontal hydraulic fracturing, or fracking.
Ray of hope for environmental justice
SAN FRANCISCO - What do a hazardous waste disposal plant, a refinery, a former power plant site and a housing complex under construction have in common?
