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Panel: Immigrants’ advocates should step up efforts in the states

March 27, 2014 By Mark Gruenberg

Immigrants' advocates should step up efforts in the states, regardless of the fate of comprehensive immigration reform in D.C., a panel discussing the issue says.

Racial discrimination leads to increased deaths of black women from breast cancer

March 27, 2014 By W. T. Whitney, Jr.

Although breast cancer survival rates increased overall between 1990 and 2010, white women benefited far more than did black women.

New Mexican miners commemorate “Salt of the Earth”

March 26, 2014 By Roberta Wood

"Where is Anita Torrez?" growled the sheriff's deputy at the young pregnant woman sitting at a table stuffing envelopes inside the union hall's doorway.

Today in women’s history: Civil rights leader and suffragist Ida B. Wells died

March 25, 2014 By Special to People’s World

Wells was an outstanding civil rights activist and journalist of the late 19th and early 20th centuries.

“America Needs A Raise” bus rolls into Maine

March 25, 2014 By Joelle Fishman

A Center for American Progress report found that raising the minimum wage will not only benefit workers and the local economy, but also will reduce taxpayer costs.