By a 5-4 margin, the Supreme Court voted on May 29 to limit a woman’s right to challenge lifetime pay discrimination on the job. Supporters of equal pay said the ruling shows the need to change the law to let her sue for past lost wages.

Last year there was a sudden national uproar on immigration. Media coverage was constant, Congress was in debate (well, at least they pretended to be) and the public was intent.

It may be that the rush to deny Mumia Abu-Jamal a retrial and see him die in a gas chamber or by injection is such a well-oiled machine, that even proof or evidence itself won't slow down its campaign.

The US News and World Report recently carried a special report, inviting discussion on "what can we (the US) learn from the outside world". The weekly publication admitted that America is not the best in every way.

The race tax is alive and well in Bush's America according to a story in today's news. African Americans pay higher car loan rates than whites.

Somebody just wrote a book about Supreme Court Justice Clarence Thomas. No it's not 400 blank pages, but it's co-written by Kevin Merida and Michael A. Fletcher and much can be said about the timing of its release, only Thomas (rumored to be Black) won't say anything.

The Ronald Reagan library was the perfect location for the recent Republican presidential debates. The gruesome words of the Republican presidential candidates seemed to come from a séance communing with Reagan's departed spirit.

On Tuesday, March 6, 2007 ICE agents in a show of repressive force swooped down on a New Bedford, Massachusetts manufacturing plant and arrested 361 undocumented workers.

The class struggle has its origins in actual exploitative practices, which in turn are traceable to an integrated, global system of exploitation. The ceaseless accumulation of capital and the exploitation of wage labor are two sides of a single coin.

Democrats Stand Up to Bush on the Iraq War; PA Joins a Media Coalition to Protest Postal Rate Hike; Legislation is Needed to Reduce the Gender Pay Gap; and the Employment Non-Discrimination Act is Re-introduced in Congress.

A measure that would outlaw discrimination in the workplace based on sexual orientation and gender identity was re-introduced in Congress yesterday (4-24-07).

Georgia State Rep. Tyrone Brooks has requested an investigation by the Georgia Bureau of Investigations (GBI) over a racist email he received a few weeks ago, Atlanta Progressive News has learned.

Immigrant workers from the Woodfin Suites hotel and their supporters rally outside the Emeryville City Hall, and then march to the hotel.

While a new study released this month notes some improvements, African Americans and Latinos are still more likely than Anglos to be targets of traffic stops and searches in Texas.

It’s very disheartening that I, a young African American male in the year 2007, feel the necessity to write a letter discussing America’s continuous deprivation of basic rights for Black America.

Although the mounting criticism had led Imus' bosses to suspend him for two weeks, at this point, it appears that they hope IMUS in the Morning will continue to do its number, waiting perhaps for a short time before returning fully to his Archie Bunker of the air game when the heat is off.

Candidates will be judged on the issues and on the ability to continue to expand and deepen the broad people’s coalition, which is the only way we can wrest control away from the right wing.

The massive immigrant rights protests last year stopped Senate passage of the repressive HR 4437. But because the Republicans controlled Congress, it was not possible to pass legislation for legalization of the 12 million undocumented.

Hundreds of guest workers from India are protesting conditions in a Pascagoula shipyard that immigrant rights activists compare to slavery.

On March 6, the Bush administration's Immigration Control Enforcement (ICE) department of Homeland Security carried out a brutal immigration raid on Michael Bianco, Inc. in New Bedford, Massachusetts, arresting 350 workers.