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![New Film Explores Untold Radical Life of Civil Rights Icon Rosa Parks](https://truthout.org/app/uploads/2022/10/RosaParks-Peacock3-400x300.jpg)
New Film Explores Untold Radical Life of Civil Rights Icon Rosa Parks
“The Rebellious Life of Mrs. Rosa Parks” examines Parks’s legacy beyond helping to inspire the Montgomery bus boycott.
![New York City restaurant workers rally outside Dine Brands shareholder meeting with signs reading 'the people who feed you are fed up' and 'Applebee's & Ihop are racist. New York shouldn't be. One Fair Wage Now!''](https://truthout.org/app/uploads/2022/08/2022_0808-wage-protest-400x300.jpg)
Subminimum Wages Were Always Deplorable. Inflation Is Making Them Worse.
Activists are pushing to end policies that allow employers to pay some workers less than the $7.25 federal minimum wage.
![Red Sox fans at Fenway Park in Boston, Massachusetts, receive word on the passing of Celtics great Bill Russell.](https://truthout.org/app/uploads/2022/08/2022_0801-bill-russell-400x300.jpg)
Bill Russell Has Died, But His Legacies in Basketball and Racial Justice Live On
Bill Russell of the Boston Celtics was a champion without peer, in more ways than one.
![Protesters demonstrate in front of Florida State Senator Ileana Garcia's office after the passage of the Parental Rights in Education bill, known as the "Don't Say Gay" bill, on March 9, 2022, in Miami, Florida.](https://truthout.org/app/uploads/2022/07/2022_0722-florida-teachers-400x300.jpg)
Florida’s Repressive Laws Are Exacerbating a Growing National Teacher Shortage
A hostile climate toward educators, particularly around LGBTQ+ issues and race, is pushing people out of the profession.
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My University “Rebranded.” Instead, It Should’ve Actually Confronted Injustice.
UMass Boston's rebranding may serve to establish the campus as a beacon of bait-and-switch austerity politics.
![Troopers in riot gear watch as demonstrators gather outside Akron City Hall to protest the killing of Jayland Walker, shot by police, in Akron, Ohio, on July 3, 2022.](https://truthout.org/app/uploads/2022/07/2022_0704-Jayland-Walker-400x300.jpg)
Protesters in Ohio Are Met With Riot Police Following Killing of Jayland Walker
Demands for justice grow as released footage shows the 25-year-old Black man getting shot at least 60 times by police.
![Activists march through the Lawndale neighborhood calling for the defunding of police on July 24, 2020, in Chicago, Illinois.](https://truthout.org/app/uploads/2022/07/2022_0701-defund-police-400x300.jpg)
Here’s Why Arab Americans Like Me Are Supporting Efforts to Defund the Police
As an Arab American whose community has endured chilling surveillance, I back the movement to defund the police.
![Two black lesbians, one of whom is pregnant, hold eachother while a midwife performs an ultrasound exam](https://truthout.org/app/uploads/2022/06/2022_0615-pregnancy-ultrasound-400x300.jpg)
Black Patients Are Regularly Denied Comprehensive Info About Pregnancy Options
It’s time for our leaders to center Black folks in health care discussions and invest in an intersectional approach.
![Security camera in front of two law enforcement officers](https://truthout.org/app/uploads/2022/06/2022_0613-police-camera-400x300.jpg)
Canada’s Predictive Policing Tech Is Poorly Regulated Under AI Policy
As surveillance has become a fact of life, digital privacy must become a human right.
![Two people embrace eachother outside of a funeral home](https://truthout.org/app/uploads/2022/06/2022_0601-uvalde-funeral-400x300.jpg)
Uvalde Students Fought for Desegregation in 1970s. Now Let’s Rise Up for Them.
In the 1970s, Uvalde students led the struggle for equal opportunity within Texas's segregated school system.