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While being arrested at McDonald’s workers demo, Rev. Barber gets ‘genius grant’
October 5, 2018Barber said the MacArthur grant is “a gesture of support, to do more of what you’re trying to do. It doesn’t say rest on your laurels."
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More than 800 women law profs demand Senate reject Kavanaugh
October 4, 2018Hundreds of women law professors have written to the United States Senate, asking all members to reject Judge Brett Kavanaugh’s appointment to the Supreme Court.
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Daddy’s boy: Times probe shows Trump empire built with father’s money, fraud
October 3, 2018By the age of 3, Donald Trump was earning an annual salary equivalent to $200,000 in today's dollars.
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Trump ban on benefits to immigrants resurrects old discrimination
October 2, 2018In Texas and other southern states until the 1960’s, almost anyone caught without $5 in his or her pocket could be declared a vagrant and put to work on a chain gang.
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Two Alabama health agencies face federal bias complaint over sewage problems
October 1, 2018The Alabama Department of Public Health and the Lowndes County Health Department are facing a federal civil rights complaint that alleges both agencies discriminated against African-American residents of Lowndes County, Ala.
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