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By Mark Berman (Washington Post) The aftermath of this Minn. police shooting was live streamed on Facebook. Here’s what you need to know. The officer who fatally shot Philando Castile, 32, has been charged with […]

By Amanda Vinicky, Chicago Tonight/WTTW A federal lawsuit filed Wednesday morning seeks federal intervention “to end the historical and on-going pattern and practice of excessive force by police officers in Chicago.” The plaintiffs—six minority men and […]

The Librarian of Congress has appointed Tracy K. Smith as the Library’s 22nd Poet Laureate Consultant in Poetry, for 2017-2018. Smith will take up her duties in the fall, opening the Library’s annual literary season […]

 by Kira Lerner, ThikProgress Supporters for a bill that would automatically restore voting rights to convicted felons upon their release from prison hold up signs supporting the bill during a news conference Thursday, Feb. 9, […]

Memorial Day 2017 is here, and it is the 149th year of its celebration. It started as Decoration Day after the American Civil War in 1868. It is a federal holiday set aside to honor […]

The District of Columbia has won back-to-back Miss USA titles and both of them are women of color. Kara McCullough, a 25-year-old scientist working for the U.S. Nuclear Regulatory Commission, was crowned Sunday at the […]

by Kevin McGill NEW ORLEANS (AP) — The statue of the Confederacy’s president had been hoisted from its stone pedestal in the pre-dawn hours and the blue glint of police lights was still visible two […]

by Dani McClain Shonta Montgomery hugs her son Levell Jones at California Institute for Women in Chino, California. (Reuters / Lucy Nicholson)  (THE NATION) This week, black women in more than a dozen jails across […]

by John Schuppe (NBC NEWS) The Trump era of drug enforcement has officially arrived, and it sounds a lot like the old days. The message came this week in the form of a memo from […]