(CNN)The NAACP is sending a strong message to people of color traveling through Missouri: Go at your own risk ( Read more... )

Because for Republican politicians, if you're super rich, you get tax cuts you don't need, even if they have to steal healthcare away from 22 million people. If you're poor, they hope you die.


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The Women’s March on Washington has released its official policy platform, a far-reaching four-page statement that takes clear stances on reproductive rights, immigration reform, and worker’s issues.

The platform puts the march in support of the usual feminist suspects: the long-overdue Equal Rights Amendment, equal pay, paid family leave, and an ( Read more... )

The North Carolina NAACP sued the state on Monday, claiming a purge targeted black voters.


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Police in Charlotte, North Carolina, arrested a black LGBT activist and former state Senate candidate Monday, saying that he violated a city ordinance by distributing literature about voting rights and candidates on parked cars ( Read more... )

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WASHINGTON - The Justice Department said Sunday that it was restarting its investigation into the 2012 shooting death of Trayvon Martin to consider possible separate hate crime charges against George Zimmerman.

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While few are defending the Internal Revenue Service for targeting some 300 conservative groups, there are two critical pieces of context missing from the conventional wisdom on the “scandal.” First, at least from what we know so far, the groups were not targeted in a political vendetta - but rather were executing a makeshift enforcement test (an ( Read more... )

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