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Last week, a committee passed SB181, a bill that would allow display of the Ten Commandments on public property and in public schools. It now moves to the floor in the Alabama House, which could debate it as early as tomorrow, March 13. It has already passed in the Senate, so if it passes in the House, it will be on the ballot in November.

After rescinding DACA, Trump tweeted: “Congress now has 6 months to legalize DACA (something the Obama Administration was unable to do). If they can't, I will revisit this issue!” The time has come for him to fix a manufactured crisis of his own making.

The march from Selma-to-Montgomery, led by Martin Luther King, Jr., is an iconic and memorable moment during the Civil Rights Movement and in U.S. History, but to understand its significance in time, it is helpful to place it in context with the South's resistance to racial integration.

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The federal appeals court in New York today issued a victory for lesbian, gay, and bisexual people, ruling that workers can’t be fired based on their sexual orientation and rebuffing the Trump administration’s insistence that they can.

If we want to understand the state of race in America, we need to know our past – particularly the painful parts.

On February 18, 1965, Jimmie Lee Jackson was shot in the stomach while unarmed and defending his mother from being beaten by law enforcement during a peaceful protest. He died on February 26 and is attributed to sparking the Selma-to-Montgomery marches that set the stage for the Voting Rights Act.

Once again, an appeals court ruled that President Trump’s Muslim ban — now in its third iteration — violates the Constitution’s most basic guarantee of religious freedom.

As Customs and Border Protection becomes increasingly aggressive, knowing your rights is crucial.