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by Michelle Goldberg Governor Scott Walker signed a repeal of his state’s workplace-discrimination law—the latest battleground over the issues that matter most to women. On Thursday, with little fanfare, Wisconsin governor Scott Walker signed a bill repealing the state’s 2009… Read More ›
By Dylan Stableford | The Cutline First it was the hoodie. Now photographs used in the media’s coverage of the Trayvon Martin killing are the subject of widespread debate, as supporters of both the slain 17-year-old African-American and the shooter,… Read More ›
by Tom Engelhardt I was out of the country only nine days, hardly a blink in time, but time enough, as it happened, for another small, airless room to be added to the American national security labyrinth. On March 22,… Read More ›
Four officers, along with a fifth who helped cover up the 2005 crimes, are sentenced to between six and 65 years in prison Four New Orleans police officers have been sentenced to decades in prison over the killing of two… Read More ›
A bill passed by Mississippi lawmakers putting new restrictions on doctors performing abortions moves the state one step closer to becoming “abortion free.” There is only one abortion clinic in the state, and the owner, Diane Derzis, has said the… Read More ›
The Martin family will send a formal request for a review of State’s Attorney Wolfinger’s actions to the Justice Department on Monday, lawyer Ben Crump told CNN Sunday The parents of Trayvon Martin are asking the feds to investigate the… Read More ›
SANFORD, Florida — The mayor of the city where Trayvon Martin was killed says he overruled police and prosecutors who opposed the release of tapes of 911 calls, telling them: “We’re not here to hide anything.” Jeff Triplett, who is… Read More ›
Msnbc’s Thomas Roberts speaks with contributor and Managing Editor for the Grio, Joy-Ann Reid, and Rep. Corrine Brown about the new surveillance video showing George Zimmerman four hours after the shooting of Trayvon Martin, and what it means for Zimmerman’s… Read More ›
After repeated calls for the release of the 911 audio in the shooting death of 17-year-old Trayvon Martin, the Sanford police department finally released the audio on Friday. Trayvon’s parents, Tracy Martin and Sybrina Fulton of Miami Gardens, arrived at… Read More ›
(Reuters) – A black veteran Miami police officer said on Tuesday that “racism is alive and well” in the United States and is evident in the case of Trayvon Martin, the unarmed African American teenager gunned down by a neighborhood… Read More ›
George Zimmerman and these people walk free, but the state executed Troy Davis. The reasons why should be obvious – nationalism and racism. — Red Phoenix Editorial Staff By Robert Snell and Christine Ferrett Detroit— A federal judge acquitted seven members… Read More ›
By Michael Winter A review of the FBI’s counterterrorism training shows agents were taught they could “bend or suspend the law” in some investigations, Wired reports, citing a bureau document. The magazine’s Danger Room blog also writes that FBI training… Read More ›
“[…] anti-war government nig- uh, the, uh, America was a…” — Rick Santorum, from a speech on 27 march. Written by Dr. Boyce Watkins There are few people on this earth that I love more than Abena Agyeman-Fisher, the Senior… Read More ›
By Heather Vogell, John Perry and Alan Judd and M.B. Pell The Atlanta Journal-Constitution Suspicious test scores in roughly 200 school districts resemble those that entangled Atlanta in the biggest cheating scandal in American history, an investigation by The Atlanta… Read More ›
Boston Dynamics’ Petman humanoid soldier looks pretty confident strutting its stuff on the treadmill. by Tim Hornyak Science fact often follows science fiction. Hence, the U.S. Army is funding development of a Terminator-style robot soldier. Boston Dynamics has released new… Read More ›
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