By Ari BermanTwitter Georgia Legislator and civil rights leader Julian Bond, before making a speech, Sunday, May 2, 1971 at the campus in Kent, Ohio. (AP Photo/James Palmer) The fight…
Demonstrators, mark the one-year anniversary of the shooting of Michael Brown in Ferguson. (Scott Olson/Getty Images) By Raha Jorjani (Raha Jorjani is an immigration defense lawyer with the Office of…
By Kanya Bennett Last August, Ferguson and Fallujah had a lot in common. Those protesting the death of Michael Brown were met with “armored vehicles, noise-based crowd-control devices, shotguns, M4 rifles like those…
By: Ericka Blount Danois Sen. Bernie Sanders (I-Vt.) addresses hecklers and supporters at the Netroots Nation 2015 Presidential Town Hall July 18, 2015, in Phoenix. “I don’t know if I…
Prisoners and guard at Louisiana State Penitentiary, in Angola, La. By Jason Stanley In 1980, there were 500,000 Americans in prison or jail. By 2013, there were more than 2.3…
By Steven HsiehTwitter Amarion Allen, 11-years-old, stands in front of a police line shortly before shots were fired in a police-officer involved shooting in Ferguson, Missouri August 9, 2015. (Reuters/Rick…
Aug 7, 2015 | By CAP Action War Room The Crazy Things The Republican Candidates Said, And The Important Things They Left Out Yesterday morning the Cleveland Plain Dealer featured…
By James Surowiecki Donald Trump’s campaign slogan is “Make America Great Again!” A better one might be “Only in America.” You could not ask for a better illustration of the…
By Lamont Lilly, Participants in the Movement for Black Lives Convening in Cleveland, Ohio, participate in the gathering’s Opening Ceremony. (Photo: Layla Amatullah Barrayn) The Movement for Black Lives National…
By: Wade Henderson Former Florida Gov. Jeb Bush, Dr. Ben Carson and New Jersey Gov. Chris Christie stand onstage prior to the Voters First Presidential Forum for Republicans at St….
By Simon McCormack Nearly one year after Michael Brown was shot dead by a police officer in Ferguson, Missouri, a new poll shows a growing number of people believe there’s…
By Nusrat Choudhury Throughout our country’s history, the federal government has used the fear of threats – real or perceived – to conduct surveillance on domestic groups and people who…