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Chicago Walmart worker at White House summit today
June 23, 2014Holmes, one of hundreds of workers who traveled to today's White House Summit On Working Families, explained to Obama about how Walmart mistreated her when she was pregnant.
Read moreToday in labor history: Title IX enacted
June 23, 2014Title IX prohibits federally funded educational institutions from discriminating against students or employees based on sex.
Read moreWalmart moms challenge Walmart chairman
June 2, 2014Opening a new front in their long campaign to improve Walmart, the "Walmart moms," members of OURWalmart, are taking on the company's chairman.
Read moreAuthor, poet, activist Maya Angelou dies at age 86
May 28, 2014Angelou, a Renaissance woman and cultural pioneer, died Wednesday morning at her home in Winston-Salem, North Carolina, her son, Guy B. Johnson, said in a statement.
Read more#Bring our girls home
May 9, 2014A wave of revulsion has spread worldwide over the news of the kidnapping of young girls from a school at Chibok, in Borno State in Northwestern Nigeria by the violent Boko Haram sect.
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