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Indigenous news: activism, identity, and honoring natives

July 2, 2015 By Andrea Perkins

On May 26, the town council in Newstead, New York voted to replace Columbus Day with Indigenous Peoples' Day.

Professor Walter T. Howard, 63: activist, teacher, organizer

July 2, 2015 By Ben Sears

Dr. Howard, the son of a long line of coal miners, was born November 23, 1951 in Hazard, Kentucky.

Coal industry win is temporary, fate of plants still in air

June 30, 2015 By Matthew Brown

A divided Supreme Court ruled against the Obama administration's attempt to limit power plant emissions of mercury and other hazardous air pollutants.

From symbol to substance, is a new South coming?

June 30, 2015 By Rev. Jesse Jackson

Only continued action to bring us together can insure that we overcome those who would use terror and fear to drive us apart.

Union leaders applaud Supreme Court health care law ruling

June 29, 2015 By Mark Gruenberg

By and large, leaders applauded the ruling keeping the ACA's federal individual payments for health care insurance subsidies for users of health care exchanges, state or federal.