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Alex Jones lost a $1 billion trial. Why is Infowars still streaming?
Jones says his enemies want him off the air. US bankruptcy law is on his side, for now.
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Thousands expected at Historic March on Washington
Families of black Americans who were injured or killed by police will speak at the historic march.
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Facebook vehemently condemned in report it commissioned into itself
Facebook has been vehemently condemned in a two-year report it commissioned into itself. The audit found a series of "serious setbacks" that led to failures on issues including hate speech, misinformation and bias. The 100-page report catalogues a "seesaw of progress and setbacks" on a wide variety of issues.
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Lady Antebellum Is Now 'Lady A.' But So Is a Blues Singer Who's Used the Name for 20 Years
“This is my life. They’re using the name because of a Black Lives Matter incident that, for them, is just a moment in time,” says the original Lady A, a 61-year-old black singer whoR…
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Ricardo Rosselló Wants 2020 Candidates Talking About Puerto Rico
The island’s 40-year-old governor is all in on statehood, calling it a “civil-rights issue of our time.”
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Opinion: Ex-Prosecutor Faces Harsh Criticism After 'Central Park 5' Netflix Series
A new television series about the Central Park Five paints an unflattering portrait of Linda Fairstein and has prompted calls to boycott her books. Her publisher dropped her Friday.
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Who Cares About the Supreme Court’s ‘Legitimacy’?
Conservatives seem to assume that only the chief justice is moved by fears that he and his colleagues will end up looking like politicians in robes.
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The Supreme Court’s Worst Decision of My Tenure
District of Columbia v. Heller recognized an individual right to possess a firearm under the Constitution. Here’s why the case was wrongly decided.
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Federal Judge Damon Keith, who authored landmark rulings on civil liberties, dies at 96
Keith decided cases on some of America's most controversial issues, from school desegregation to government surveillance of citizens
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In Saudi trial, detained women speak of torture, abuse
Eleven women responded to charges that rights groups say include contact with international media and human rights groups, in the second hearing of a high-profile trial that foreign reporters and diplomats are barred from attending.
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The Reckoning of Morris Dees and the Southern Poverty Law Center
The work at the S.P.L.C. could be meaningful and gratifying. But it was hard, for many of us there, not to feel like we’d become pawns in what was, in many respects, a highly profitable scam. By Bob Moser.
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Emmett Till’s Murder, and How America Remembers Its Darkest Moments
He walked into a store and it changed civil rights. That crumbling store has come to symbolize the struggle to address the nation’s racial violence.
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‘Time for the Ku Klux Klan to night ride again’: An Alabama newspaper editor wants to bring back lynching
“If we could get the Klan to go up there and clean out D.C., we’d all been better off," Goodloe Sutton told the Montgomery Advertiser, explaining, “We’ll get the hemp ropes out, loop them over a tall limb and hang all of them.”
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The Supreme Court Case That Enshrined White Supremacy in Law
How Plessy v. Ferguson shaped the history of racial discrimination in America.
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Mitch McConnell Admits He's Against High Voter Turnout Because He Suspects People Will Vote for Democrats
He openly mocked the idea of an Election Day holiday on the Senate floor and called it a "power grab" by Democrats.
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Equality March in Gdansk: Pawel Adamowicz, Contributor
Over the centuries, the harbour city of Gdansk was proud to be open for diversity, famous for its tolerance....Remembering this history lesson, I decided to take part in the Equality March, which took place on Saturday.
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Michigan’s GOP Is Stripping Power From the State’s Voters
Michigan’s constitution lets voters pass progressive ballot initiatives, so the state GOP is trying to undo the constitution.
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Confederate flag placed on Mississippi civil rights martyr's grave
The family of Vernon Dahmer learned Tuesday of a Confederate battle flag placed on the civil rights martyr's grave.
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At 63, I Threw Away My Prized Portrait of Robert E. Lee
I was raised to venerate Lee the principled patriot—but I want no association with Lee the defender of slavery.
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Stone Mountain: The Largest Confederate Monument Problem in the World
Stone Mountain has been called “a blight” upon the state of Georgia. But to others it is a key part of Southern heritage.
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