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White supremacist “Unite the Right” rally approved for second anniversary in D.C.

Trump’s new order ending family separations will just detain undocumented families indefinitely

U.S. pulls out of UN Human Rights Council citing anti-Israel “chronic bias”

How do you mourn an abuser?: Rapper XXXtentacion killed outside motorcycle dealership in Florida

5 undocumented migrants killed in Sunday police chase

Prisons increasingly employ teachers and secretaries to substitute for guards

Southern Baptists signal move away from conservatism with election of youngest president in 37 years

Spain’s new Socialist government will accept 600 migrants after Italy turns asylum seekers away

The Obsidian Collection and Google are working to digitize Black legacy newspapers for a modern world

A look inside the converted Walmart that shelters over 1,400 migrant children as detentions boom

Chicago activists accuse police of negligence as Black girls and women continue disappearing

SCOTUS rules voters can be purged from Ohio rolls if they don’t respond to a notice after missing 1 vote

New concerns over shifting costs to patients as private equity firms gobble up health care providers

Jeff Sessions says domestic violence is not grounds for asylum in the U.S.

As the FCC’s Net Neutrality repeal goes into effect, states issue lawsuits to fight internet deregulation

The city of Houston is experimenting with land trust to fight gentrification

Distraught father kills himself in a jail cell after being separated from his family at border

How I learned to stop torturing myself in hopes of getting to “the good part” of bad entertainment

Poetry reading is up in America, but there’s still more work to be done to sustain readers

Judge says a bar refusing service to Trump supporters is not “outrageous” conduct

ICE arrests 114 at Ohio gardening stores in one of the largest workplace raids in years

Kim Kardashian West lobbied to commute Alice Marie Johnson’s cruel sentence. Now she’s out.

Urban planning pioneer Toni Griffin wins award after subverting rules to highlight segregation

Supreme Court: Colorodo shop can’t be forced to serve gay couple, but ruling may not apply to similar cases

Former 911 dispatcher dishes on racist white callers, how ‘BBQ Becky’ is not an anomaly

California city set to test basic income of $500 a month to fight income inequality

Study: Puerto Rico death toll 4x higher than official number given after Hurricane Maria

Roseanne reboot cancelled, its star dropped from agency after anti-Black tweet

Betsy DeVos says schools can call ICE on undocumented students, activists push back

US “loses” 1,500 children, raising new concerns about Trump immigration policies & human trafficking

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