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Virginia Senate advances Equal Rights Amendment

January 16, 2019 By Emile Schepers

The 98-year effort to get a gender equality constitutional amendment approved may be approaching the finish line.

Reminder: U.S. also employs state of national emergency against socialist Cuba

January 15, 2019 By W. T. Whitney, Jr.

Cuba’s 2019 budget dedicates 51 percent of its outlay to paying education and health care costs.

A Peoples’ Victory: Cyntoia Brown granted freedom

January 14, 2019 By Albert Bender

On January 7, Tennessee Governor Bill Haslam announced at a press conference that he was granting Cyntoia Brown’s request for clemency. Brown will be released on August 7 of this year. The news was received with...

Hear these engines roar: Female team says this is no gimmick

January 14, 2019 By Jenna Fryer

DAYTONA BEACH, Fla. (AP) — Every racing series in the world is full of wealthy enthusiasts with ideas that sound too good to be true. Expensive promises to fund life-changing opportunities are usually broken before cars...

‘Surviving R. Kelly’ documentary raises stakes in discussion over sexual abuse

January 8, 2019 By Michelle Zacarias

The new documentary series shows how R. Kelly lured young vulnerable black women, often promising to help jumpstart their careers.