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Huge crowd pledges to fight for MLK’s ‘Dream’

June 25, 2013 By John Rummel

Fifty years after Dr. King first gave his "I Have a Dream Speech" to 100,000 in this city, a diverse sea of people again flooded a two-mile stretch of Woodward Ave, Detroit's main thoroughfare.

Philly hunger strikers fast for safe schools

June 25, 2013 By Ben Sears

"This is breakfast, lunch and dinner. Every day, for eight days," said Patricia Norris as she held up her bottle of water. Norris is on a "water only" fast outside Republican Gov. Tom Corbett's regional office.

Supreme Court limits sexual harassment lawsuits

June 24, 2013 By Mark Gruenberg

The U.S. Supreme Court ruled that only supervisors with direct power over a worker's future can be sued for racial or sexual harassment on the job.

U.S. Supreme Court sends affirmative action case back to lower court

June 24, 2013 By John Wojcik

Fisher v. the University of Texas was a challenge to that school's affirmative action policy by Abigail Fisher, whose application for admission was turned down.

The fast against firings

June 21, 2013 By David Bacon

While the Senate debates the immigration bill, labor and community activists in northern California charge that the Immigration and Customs Enforcement agency continues to require local employers to fire hundreds of workers, saying they have no...