What happens when oppression reaches a boiling point?
Scholars say ICE deportation protests could prove a crucible moment.
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Office for Civil Rights nominee vows aggressive enforcement amid mass layoffs
Senate committee grills conservative lawyer Kimberly Richey, who led the Office for Civil Rights during COVID, on antisemitism, LGBTQ+ issues.
3 ways the government can silence opinions it disagrees with, without using censorship
The current actions of the Trump administration show how government can silence speakers without using censorship.
Trump Admin Knew Before Deporting Them That a Vast Majority of the Men at CECOT Are Innocent
Homeland Security records reveal that officials knew that more than half of the 238 deportees to El Salvador were labeled as having no criminal record in the U.S. and had only violated immigration…
Lawyers for Bronx Student Detained by ICE File Petition for Immediate Release
A Bronx student detained by ICE last week made national news, causing a swell of support. Lawyers just filed a petition for his immediate release.
U.S. citizen wrestled to the ground, detained by ICE who called his Real ID “fake.”
Immigration officials were arresting his co-workers in Alabama. He was filming the arrests when he was detained by ICE.
It’s been 5 years since the George Floyd murder. What changed?
The George Floyd murder that ignited protests all over the world happened 5 years ago. Has anything changed?
5 years after George Floyd’s murder: How the media narrative has changed around the killing and the protests that followed
From the outset, the incident became a battle of narratives. The local police initially reported George Floyd was experiencing “distress” and died from a medical incident. A day later, bystander…
Why 1963 was America’s tipping point
Black studies scholar Peniel Joseph’s new book illuminates a pivotal point in the nation’s struggle for civil rights — and how only one year can bring us closer (or further from) true democracy and racial equity.
REPORT: Trump Admin Deporting People Who Entered the US Legally
A new report looked at the Venezuelans sent to a gulag in El Salvador and found that over 50 of them came to the U.S. the correct, legal way.
In Oklahoma, US citizens were raided by 20 federal agents
US citizens were raided in Oklahoma City: A mother and daughters were traumatized after 20 federal agents broke through their door, guns drawn, in the middle of the night.
14 years in America. Got a one-way ticket to El Salvador.
Yessenia Ruano worked to build a life in Milwaukee with her family, a teaching career and church community. Now she’s fighting to stop it from being uprooted.
Trump’s Bid to End Birthright Citizenship Heads to Supreme Court
For more than 150 years, almost all people who were born within U.S. territory automatically received citizenship – regardless of their parents’ immigration status. President Donald Trump’s January 2025 executive order on birthright citizenship – stating that children born in the U.S. to parents who…
From Defenders to Skeptics: The Sharp Decline in Support For Free Speech among Young Americans
Support among 18- to 34-year-olds for allowing controversial or offensive speech has dropped sharply.
Trump Asks SCOTUS to end Humanitarian Protections For Migrants From 4 Nations
WASHINGTON — The Trump administration Thursday made an emergency request to the U.S. Supreme Court to allow the deportation of more than half a million immigrants granted humanitarian protections under the Biden administration. A federal judge in Massachusetts in April blocked Department of Homeland…
Immigration lawyers rush to prevent imminent deportations to Libya, Saudi Arabia
Marco Rubio and Stephen Miller spoke about arrangements made to deport undocumented immigrants to Libya if their country of origin didn't accept them.