equality
Conn. labor and civil rights groups join together at M. L. King event
January 19, 2016Participants came not only to celebrate the life of Dr. King, but also to commit to building a more just and inclusive society.
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Today in history: It’s Women’s Equality Day!
August 26, 2015On this day 95 years ago, in 1920, after a 72-year struggle, women in the United States won the right to vote.
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Bernie Sanders rallies in Northwest draw record crowds
August 10, 2015Sanders appealed for unity, and declared that having good jobs, racial, and gender equality, health care, and higher education for all "is not utopian dreaming."
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May it displease the court: race and Justice Sotomayor
July 8, 2015The Supreme Court announced it would again hear an affirmative action case in which a white woman claims she was denied admission to the University of Texas because of her race.
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Confederate flag, like the swastika, has no place in our future
June 29, 2015What is behind "Stars and Bars," Calhoun Streets and Robert E. Lee statues-lynchings and mass incarceration, police bullying and murder of African Americans.
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