Marchers in Phoenix demand an “Arpaio-free” Arizona
"We won't have justice in Maricopa County until Federal immigration agents get out of the county jail and stop relying on prejudiced policies."
President Obama, at federal prison, calls for new approach to crime
The president said there must be a distinction between young people "doing stupid things" and violent criminals.
Flora Hommel, 87: life as a labor of love
Besides being the founder of the Childbirth Without Pain Education Association, her work touched on so many areas ... health, women, city politics, world politics.
Authors and booksellers want DOJ to investigate Amazon
Amazon's business tactics have called into question the power the online retailer wields over the book industry.
Government’s case against Rosenbergs gutted by release of key testimony
"It's time for the government to admit that Ethel Rosenberg was not a spy and that Julius was not an atomic spy."
Labor leaders meet with Bernie Sanders
"We thought it was important to hear his ideas: how he plans to take on the big-money interests that are strangling our political system and our economy."
At start of N.C. voting rights trial, activists take to the streets
"When I think of the martyrs of the civil rights movement who died for the right to vote, this country should be doing everything possible to ensure all people can vote."
American Federation of Teachers endorses Hillary Clinton
Weingarten put the union's endorsement in the context of scrapping the Bush-era No Child Left Behind and its teach-to-the-test penalizing of students and schools.
AFL-CIO statement on Scott Walker announcement
Trumka released a statement in response to Gov. Walker's upcoming announcement that he is running for president of the U.S.
Today in African-American history: Mary McLeod Bethune born in 1875
She organized African American women in the South to vote despite the Jim Crow poll tax and other racist restrictions.
