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On March 22, 1972, in an 84–8 vote, the United States Senate passed the Equal Rights Amendment.

Since 2001, the Innocence Project New Orleans [IPNO] has freed 33 innocent people from spending their lives in…

Earlier this month, on the floor of the House of Representatives, two women embraced each other.

White nationalism is resurgent in the streets of America. It’s driving federal policy in the Trump administration.…

BOISE, ID—On paper, Paulette Jordan is the kind of candidate Native peoples dreamt of a generation ago.

Maya Little is far from finished.

On November 6, Los Angeles voters will decide on a ballot measure that would allow the city to create a public bank…

It wasn’t so long ago that white nationalist “intellectual” Richard Spencer was the toast of the so-called…

Sixty-one-year-old Jose Ramos says he often experienced racism and discrimination from his department manager toward…

AMARILLO, TEXAS—The Democratic candidate for Congress in the most Republican congressional district in America does…

This piece is part of Splinter’s series The New Guard, where we interview progressive candidates who are running in…

This piece is part of Splinter’s series The New Guard, where we interview progressive candidates who are running in…

Taking the mic in front of a standing-room-only crowd at the Brooklyn YWCA on Wednesday night, Chris Maisano…

My mother has lung cancer. At the end of last year, she began feeling breathless and tired, struggling with walks…

Our nation’s teachers unions have had a whiplash of a year, from the statewide teachers’ strikes that have swept the…

When members of the Democratic Socialists of America entered a Washington, D.C., restaurant this week and chanted…

The government called it a “segregation center,” but Satsuki Ina calls it a prison camp.

Last week, the Trump-Pence administration met with FEMA officials to congratulate the agency on a successful 2017.…

La semana pasada, la administración de Trump-Pence se reunió con representantes de la FEMA para felicitar a la…

In the middle of the night on November 11, 2011, Jenn Shapland, a 24-year-old graduate student in the English…