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Know Your Voting Rights

Important elections are coming this fall. In addition to electing the next president of the United States, we will be voting for members of Congress, and state and local leaders.

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What It Means To Be an American

One night at his UPS job, Tefere Gebre's co-worker handed him some union material. 

“He told me that I’d get health care and vacation and other benefits by filling it out. I said, ‘Are you serious?’ I thought, ‘Hmm. Everyone should have that.’”

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SOCK DRIVE - September 5 through October 29, 2016

Our #LaborSockDrive began on September 5 at Laborfest; thanks to those who brought socks along!

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Today’s Photo ID Laws Are Yesterday’s Beans in a Jar

Growing up in rural Kentucky, Augusta Thomas witnessed the extreme measures elected officials would take to prevent African-American men from voting.
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On the 51st Anniversary of the Voting Rights Act, Now Is the Time to Restore It to Its Full Power

Anniversaries can be celebratory or somber. Today we celebrate the 51st anniversary of the Voting Rights Act of 1965, and it is the kind of anniversary in which we hail the success of the act, while also acknowledging the deficiencies in our democracy that make the full act necessary.

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Opinion: My Neighborhood, by Sheila Cochran

I live in the Sherman Park neighborhood and I lived there for over 24 years. When I awoke last Saturday night to all that was happening watching it on the news and listening to the helicopters hovering over head, I had a lot of thoughts, but not one of them was leaving my home an

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