... Earlier this year, the Downtown Brooklyn + Dumbo Art Fund opened “ Mind Forged Manacles/Manacle Forged Minds, ” a ten-foot sculpture touching on themes of incarceration and dividing communities...
...Weeks after a federal judge rejected their concerns over Jackson water, several community groups are now seeking an audience with the EPA. On August 9, the Mississippi Poor People’s Campaign and...
Last week, for the first time ever, an international body asked questions about the Vatican’s handling of widespread and systemic rape and sexual violence. Last Wednesday, survivors of rape and...
Humanist Society of Metropolitan New York presents An Evening with Ramsey Clark and Sara Flounders discussing urgent current issues relevant to the People's Right to Know. CCR Social Justice...
The U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) agency, one of three federal immigration groups within the U.S. Department of Homeland Security (DHS), oversees the detention of hundreds of...
A federal appeals court on Tuesday reinstated a lawsuit challenging the New York Police Department's surveillance of Muslim groups in New Jersey after the Sept. 11 terrorist attacks, saying any...
Steven Salaita hit the jackpot Wednesday, when the University of Illinois agreed to pay him $600,000 and his lawyers an additional $275,000 to go away. That's roughly seven times what his annual...
The U.S. Supreme Court on Monday handed a victory to former President George W. Bush's attorney general, FBI chief and other officials, ruling they cannot be sued over the treatment of detainees,...
...And we should not forget that it was in his tenure overseeing Guantanamo that we first heard about John Kelly, the currently embattled White House chief of staff. When the president* nominated...
