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Monthly Archives: April 2015
‘This is a new low even for Walmart,’ say fired workers
By Chris Isidore and Katie Lobosco Walmart (WMT) unexpectedly closed five stores last week for what it said were severe plumbing problems. That put 2,200 people out of work. But the United Food and Commercial Workers union filed an injunction with the … Continue reading
State Legislatures Reveal a Lot About Racism in America
By Charles D. Ellison Look a little closer and you’ll find that state legislatures are some of the most unapologetic cesspools of racism in America. Which is one reason some of us cringe at that familiar concept called “states’ rights.” … Continue reading
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Tagged government, issues, law, life, race, racism, state legislatures, United States
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Rodriguez v. United States: A huge win against police overreach at the Supreme Court.
By Mark Joseph Stern Dennys Rodriguez knew his rights—and he planned to use them. Just after midnight in March of 2012, a police officer pulled Rodriguez over for briefly veering onto the shoulder of the highway, and wrote Rodriguez a warning. The … Continue reading
Kids Respond to Child Hunger
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Tagged children, food, food insecurity, kids, poverty, United States
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I am a cook in the US Senate but I still need food stamps to feed my children
By Bertrand Olotara Every day, I serve food to some of the most powerful people on earth – including many of the senators who are running for president: I’m a cook for the federal contractor that runs the US Senate … Continue reading
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Tagged food insecurity, income inequality, politics, poverty, US Senate
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A Judge Just Let A Cop Walk After A Deadly Shooting. Legal Experts Say The Reasoning Is ‘Incredible.’
By Nicole Flatow Late Monday, a Cook County judge acquitted Chicago police officer Dante Servin of several homicide-related charges for the fatal shooting of an unarmed woman standing outside with some friends near his home. It was the first … Continue reading
Documentary Blows Open Serial Killer’s 25-Year Spree of Killing Black Women and a Shocking Lack of Interest in Catching Him
By Kali Holloway By the mid-1980s, the Los Angeles Police Department knew there was a prolific serial killer operating in the South Central section of the city. His victims, like most of the residents of the area, were overwhelmingly African … Continue reading
Gary Haugen: The hidden reason for poverty the world needs to address now
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Tagged civil rights, Gary Haugen, global poverty, poverty, Rwanda
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The Man Who Broke the Music Business
By Stephen Witt One Saturday in 1994, Bennie Lydell Glover, a temporary employee at the PolyGram compact-disk manufacturing plant in Kings Mountain, North Carolina, went to a party at the house of a co-worker. He was angling for a permanent … Continue reading
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Tagged business, digital music, ennie Lydell Glover, MP3, music, technology
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