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Efforts to reform the prison system may only be expanding the prison system into other parts of American life.

The House Democratic Party leadership made a remarkable step forward last week in putting out a proposal for a financial transactions tax.

Five companies extracting huge profits from the growth of prisons, often out of public sight.

In his introduction to the newly published anthology of MLK's speeches and writings, Cornel West writes, “This book unearths a radical King that we can no longer sanitize.”

From 1942 to 1948, thousands of immigrants deemed disloyal to the United States were held in a Texas internment camp.

Under new IRS rules these hospitals must take extra steps to inform poor patients they may qualify for financial assistance.

For her steadfast commitment to the intellectual development of Black feminist theory, methodology, and praxis, Kristie Dotson is most certainly a feminist we love.

Obama's proposal for free tuition is exciting, but some parts of the plan may need revision if community colleges are going to be able to execute it.

World leaders walked, decrying the violent suppression of speech and religious freedom, although many of them have been guilty of the same crimes in their own nations.

Recently modified labor laws adversely impact garment workers, most of whom work in inhumane conditions.