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As debate continues over how to fund a more than $2 trillion infrastructure package proposed by President Joe Biden, Republicans are warning that if taxes are raised for corporations and…
Sen. Bernie Sanders (I-Vermont) and Rep. Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez (D-New York) virtually joined McDonald’s workers in 15 cities in their strike on Wednesday to demand $15 an hour wages ahead of…
Rep. Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez (D-New York) is planning to introduce a resolution to block the U.S.’s planned $735 million weapons sale to Israel amid its current assault on Palestinians. As first…
After Democrats barely held on to control of the United States House of Representatives in the 2020 elections, Rep. Sean Patrick Maloney (D-New York), chairman of the Democratic Congressional Campaign…
In September 2020, Donald Trump issued an executive order targeting institutions that teach critical race theory. I took that personally. As an academic and as a school board president of…
In North Carolina, the Pasquotank County District Attorney’s Office has found the April 21 police shooting of Andrew Brown Jr., a 42-year-old Black father, in Elizabeth City was justified. Meanwhile,…
On May 10, as a pounding Spring rain eased to an intermittent sun-dappled drizzle, New Orleans’s Young PinStripe Brass Band played a supercharged fanfare of “We Got the Funk” to…
Earlier this month, the Department of Labor released a less-than-stellar jobs report that sent politicians, economists and leaders in corporate America scrambling for answers. That report details an approximate 71%…
Rep. Rashida Tlaib (D-Michigan) confronted President Joe Biden on Tuesday about his tepid stance on Israel’s violent abuses of Palestinians, urging him to stand up for the historically marginalized population…
The office of New York Attorney General Letitia James announced late Tuesday that it has expanded its civil probe into the Trump Organization to investigate the corporate entity in a…