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  1. 50 Years Later: Why We Must Remember the Civil Rights Movement Dr. Martin Luther King displays pictures of three civil rights workers,who were slain in Mississippi the summer before, from left Michael Schwerner, James Chaney, and Andrew Goodman, at a news conference in New York. (AP Photo/JL, File)
    7 Jul 2014 … We must remember the courage of the people of Mississippi and other Jim Crow states and that the civil rights movement was an endeavor of white and black bonding. Continue reading
  2. Congress Misses Opportunity to Reverse Sequester Cuts to Housing
    8 Aug 2013 … Sequestration mandates made housing less affordable than ever. Congressional inaction will keep it that way. Continue reading
  3. How This Country Fails Its Most Vulnerable Brooklyn residents receive free food as part of a Bowery Mission outreach program on December 5, 2013 in the Brooklyn borough of New York City. (Photo by John Moore/Getty Images)
    2 Feb 2021 … A field guide to our threadbare social safety net. Continue reading
  4. Denying a Head Start in Washington State Teacher Sarah Morse, center, helps during lunch at the Eastham Community Center Claskamas County Children's Commission Head Start in Oregon City, Ore. (AP Photo/Rick Bowmer)
    6 Jun 2013 … Greg Kaufmann talks to a Head Start director in Washington State to find out how the sequester is affecting programs that are already underfunded. Continue reading
  5. Study: Refusing to Expand Medicaid Hurts People of Color the Hardest african-american man, homeless
    12 Dec 2013 … A new study shows that poor minorities will make up a disproportionate share of the health insurance "coverage gap." Continue reading
  6. Activists to Watch: Phaedra Ellis-Lamkins
    10 Oct 2013 … Historian Peter Dreier explains why Ellis-Lamkins is a part of a new wave of grassroots activists changing America. Continue reading
  7. The Wage War’s Two Battlegrounds: The Ballot Box and the Board Room fight for $15 protest
    5 May 2015 … The movement toward a living wage is quickly gaining public sympathy and support. Continue reading
  8. The Good Society (Part Two) Los Angeles
    8 Aug 1992 … The second part of The Good Society focuses on Los Angeles and the stories of people who have long recognized the need for cooperative action to benefit the community as a whole. The program features individuals in schools, churches, and Continue reading
  9. What Does Paul Ryan Really Mean by the Phrase “Inner City”? Google Ngram Offers a Clue
    3 Mar 2014 … The history of the phrase 'inner city' seems to buttress assertions that it comes with racial connotations. Continue reading
  10. It’s Been 25 Years Since Restaurant Workers Got a Raise Waitress Sheila Abramson at Langer's Delicatessen serves customers on February 26, 2013 in Los Angeles, California. (Photo by Kevork Djansezian/Getty Images)
    4 Apr 2016 … Thanks to the efforts of industry groups like the National Restaurant Association -- or "the other NRA," as I like to call them -- which has stymied efforts to raise wages for restaurant workers, April 1 marked the 25th year Continue reading