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GOP-run Missouri House moving fast on anti-worker agenda

March 4, 2014 By Tim Rowden

Unionists mobilized against anti-worker schemes, delivering more than 6,850 handwritten and individual letters to state House Speaker Tim Jones demanding he reject so-called Right to Work legislation.

Prosecutor aims to increase Marissa Alexander sentence to 60 years

March 4, 2014 By Aleta Alston-Toure’

The national Free Marissa Now Mobilization Campaign is resolved to fight for Marissa Alexander's freedom, and for the lives and freedom of all victims of domestic violence.

“Step closer to equality”: Texas judge overthrows gay marriage ban

February 28, 2014 By Kelly Sinclair

In his ruling, the San Antonio judge wrote that the same-sex marriage ban "violates plaintiffs' equal protection and due process rights under the Fourteenth Amendment to the United States Constitution."

Union says inner-city minorities are cheated on mass transit

February 28, 2014 By Mark Gruenberg

The differences in commuting times for inner-city minority residents and suburban non-minorities are significant enough to affect minorities' pay and job possibilities.

Today in black history: Civil rights activist Jimmie Lee Jackson dies, becomes catalyst for Selma march

February 26, 2014 By Teresa Albano

Twenty-six year old civil rights protester Jimmie Lee Jackson died this day, Feb. 26, 1965, from gunshot wounds inflicted by Alabama State Trooper after marching in a peaceful protest.