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‘Good Trouble’: 17 House Democrats Arrested Protesting Roe Reversal at Supreme Court

Common Dreams - July 20, 2022

"Even though they arrested us, we won't stop our organizing, agitating, and legislating for justice," declared Rep. Cori Bush. JESSICA CORBETT, CommonDreams Several members of Congress were...

Oscar Blayton

COMMENTARY: Brownshirts In Our Streets

Oscar Blayton - August 1, 2020

by Oscar Blayton The unidentified goon squads snatching people off the streets of Portland, Ore., have a chilling resemblance to a similar fascist tool of oppression...

Race

Kareem Abdul-Jabbar Speaks to the Black Press About Injustice

Stacy M. Brown - June 12, 2020

by Stacy M. Brown, NNPA Newswire Senior Correspondent @StacyBrownMedia Los Angeles Lakers Basketball Legend Kareem Abdul Jabbar sat down for a live interview with the...

The Gantt Report

COMMENTARY: Voices of Black Elders

Lucius Gantt - June 11, 2020

By Lucius Gantt I applaud America’s young people and others that are standing up and speaking out about inequality and injustice in the United...

Courts/Law

15 Arrested in Civil Disobedience Action Led by Immigrant Youth

Orlando Advocate - July 26, 2017

Fifteen demonstrators, including four DACA recipients, were arrested Wednesday (page translation required) in Austin, Texas, part of a new wave of protests that the groups...

Featured

Betty Shelby Aquitted in Killing of Unarmed Terence Crutcher

Advocate Staff - May 18, 2017

TULSA, Okla. (AP) — A jury HAS acquitted Betty Shelby, a white Oklahoma police officer, in the killing of unarmed Terence Crutcher last year. Shelby said...

The Seraaj Files

Standing Rock Protests Deserve Our Support

Kevin Seraaj - December 3, 2016

The late Rev. Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr., in his 1963 soul-stirring ‘Letter From a Birmingham Jail,” said something about protests that resonated deeply...

News

Standing Rock Protestors Point to Yet Another Violation of Treaty

Frank Butler - December 3, 2016

The United States has a long and inglorious history of making and then reneging on treaties it enters into with Native Americans. This kind of...

Featured

Protesters take to the streets following Trump victory

Advocate Staff - November 9, 2016

Up to 100 people angry about Donald Trump’s shocking election victory hit the streets in protest from northern California to Seattle early Wednesday. People also...

News

Prisoner Was Wrong: Freddie Gray Didn’t Kill Himself

Kevin Seraaj - April 30, 2015

BALTIMORE — A prisoner sharing a police transport van with Freddie Gray told investigators that he could hear Gray “banging against the walls” of...

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PRESS ROOM: Clyburn, Pressley, Scanlon, Colleagues Urge Biden to Use Clemency Power to Address Mass Incarceration Before Leaving Office

November 21, 2024

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