racism

Renewed push to legally ban racial profiling

April 19, 2012 By Mark Gruenberg

In an April 17 Senate hearing, union groups joined civil rights, community and faith-based organizations in a renewed push to legally ban racial profiling by law enforcers.

Wage gap costs women extra 92 weeks of groceries

April 17, 2012 By John Wojcik

A new report released today on Equal Pay Day shows that the yearly median pay for women in America is $10,784 less than their male counterparts.

Jobs pipeline offers hope

April 16, 2012 By Joelle Fishman

Youth, the unemployed, elected officials, educators, union leaders, and the business community were all represented at a public hearing.

Wells Fargo charged with bias over upkeep of foreclosed homes

April 16, 2012 By Marilyn Bechtel

Wells Fargo is becoming the focus of a new kind of protest - against the way it manages the foreclosed homes it owns.

Angela Davis speaks on struggles of feminism

April 13, 2012 By Zac Smith

A point to which Davis returned throughout her speech was the need for feminists to be conscious of class and race as well as of gender.