Trump embraces “ridiculous” mass deportation policy
Trump says we round up and deport all 11 million undocumented immigrants, and he will do so because he knows how to manage.
Boy Scouts of America to allow gay adult leaders
The new policy, aimed at easing a controversy that has embroiled the Boy Scouts for years, takes effect immediately.
Sandra Bland's jailers spinning autopsy results
The trooper plainly didn't like Bland's forthright defense of her civil rights; in Texas, you can be prosecuted for resisting arrest even if the actual arrest was illegal.
Jews, the civil rights movement, Israel: hot topics in Open HIllel tour
In each of the campuses where they refused Open Hillel's request that we vets be permitted to speak, the Open Hillel students arranged alternative campus venues.
Ohioans protest as Kasich announces his campaign for presidency
Ohioans fed up with John Kasich's pro-1 percent policies came out in droves to protest their governor as he announced his bid for the Republican nomination for president
Today in history: The Americans with Disabilities Act signed 25 years ago
It was dedicated activism that accomplished these measures so that the benefits of living in a modern society can be accessed by millions more people.
Walker offers rightwing policies tried and tested in his Wisconsin lab
Wisconsin stands as the actual laboratory of failure for Republican ideology and pain for the people.
Justice for Tamir Rice dealt legal blow ahead of civil rights conference
An Ohio appeals court declined to force the arrest of the Cleveland police officers involved in the murder of 12-year old Tamir Rice.
Scam videos try to destroy Planned Parenthood - again
An individual with ties to far-right video scammers has launched a new video attack on Planned Parenthood.
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.
