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NAACP Leader Booed After Calling for Black and Brown Solidarity...
Anita Bennett, Urbanhollywood411.com
NAACP Leader Booed After Calling for Black and Brown Solidarity... (Second column, 8th story, link) Related stories:Socialism's next test: Swing states... Mamdani plans to spend $5.2M on propaganda office...
May 31, 2026, 11:28 PM
Here’s the biggest news you missed this weekend
Amina Kilpatrick, Kayla Hayempour, Mark Hodge, NBC News
Family visitation at a New Jersey immigration detention center is set to resume after being suspended amid days of protests, arrests and clashes outside the facility, Gov.
May 31, 2026, 10:00 PM
Newark mayor imposes curfew at Delaney Hall immigration detention centre
Al Jazeera Staff, Al Jazeera English
New Jersey Governor Mikie Sherrill has called for the establishment of protest zones to minimise clashes with police.
May 31, 2026, 8:12 PM
“Totally unacceptable”: Pence calls slush fund for Jan. 6 rioters “deeply offensive”
Alex Galbraith, Salon
The former vice president was inside the Capitol when it was stormed by Trump supporters.
May 31, 2026, 5:31 PM
Protesters want to send ‘fascists to Mars’ aboard mock rocket
Al Jazeera English
Environmental activists in Rome built a mock rocket with caricatures of Giorgia Meloni and Donald Trump.
May 31, 2026, 1:41 PM
Capitol rioters clamor for payouts from 'anti-weaponization' fund despite backlash...
Michael Kunzelman, Associated Press
Many of the convicted rioters who stormed the Capitol on Jan. 6, 2021, are clamoring for payouts from the nearly $1.8 billion settlement that the Trump administration has set up for people claiming to be victims of a weaponized government. Whether they'll be …
May 30, 2026, 4:19 PM
Growing number of artists pull out of 250th anniversary celebration on National Mall
Beatrice Peterson, Abcnews.com
Martina McBride, Bret Michaels, Young MC and more said they won't perform.
May 29, 2026, 6:30 PM
Chilling Effects
Bruce Schneier, Schneier.com
Younger Americans have soured on the second Donald Trump presidency, but they are not protesting it. Despite an unpopular Iran war and an even more unpopular Trump administration, college campus protests nationwide have gone silent. And at many schools, stude…
May 29, 2026, 11:02 AM
Tense protests erupt outside Delaney Hall immigrant detention centre in US
Al Jazeera, Al Jazeera English
A hunger strike at the New Jersey facility has raised questions about conditions in US immigration detention centres.
May 28, 2026, 11:10 PM
Americans know something is deeply wrong. They’re not imagining it
Chauncey DeVega, Salon
Surveys and data confirm a country in crisis — stressed and divided, but not yet ready to give up
May 28, 2026, 10:45 AM
Protesters, leaders push back against DHS over Newark detention facility conditions
Ivan Pereira, Abcnews.com
Tensions continue to grow outside a Delaney Hall in Newark as activists and Democratic leaders clash with the federal government.
May 27, 2026, 7:52 PM
For far-right extremists, the rise of a new enemy: women
Odette Yousef, NPR
Misogyny is an increasing factor in far-right attacks, but it often goes unnoticed.
May 27, 2026, 9:00 AM
After San Diego shooting, Muslim Americans aim to turn grief into action
Ali Harb, Al Jazeera English
More than 25,000 US Muslims have come together for the annual ICNA conference, where speakers encouraged activism.
May 24, 2026, 9:25 PM
Officers who defended Capitol from rioters sue to block payouts from fund
The Associated Press, NPR
Two police officers who helped defend the U.S. Capitol during the Jan. 6 riot are suing to block anyone from receiving payouts from a new settlement fund.
May 21, 2026, 6:54 AM
Bolivian president to reshuffle cabinet amid anti-government protests
Al Jazeera, Al Jazeera English
Bolivian President Rodrigo Paz is under pressure from protests against his government and poor economic conditions.
May 20, 2026, 9:07 PM
Clashes as Morales-allied protesters march on Bolivian capital
Al Jazeera, Al Jazeera English
South American country suffers huge protests as economic crisis fuels unrest against President Paz's government.
May 18, 2026, 9:16 PM
Opinion - Class warfare is smoldering in America — and it’s about to catch fire
Austin Sarat, opinion contributor, The Hill
Last Month's Los Angeles arsonry offers clearest expression of America’s class resentment since Luigi Mangione.
May 18, 2026, 1:00 PM
Bus riders to Montgomery retrace old steps while fighting a new fight
The Associated Press, NPR
Thousands of people rallied Saturday in Montgomery, Alabama, to push back against conservative states' efforts to dismantle congressional districts that helped secure Black political representation.
May 17, 2026, 4:21 PM
How White Christian Nationalists are trying to Hijack America’s 250th Birthday
Daniel Martin Varisco, Juancole.com
The proposed national prayer vigil is a politically glorified evangelistic service by ultra-conservative Christian Nationalists.
May 17, 2026, 4:06 AM
Tom Morello Blasts Trump, ICE Abuses at NYC Event: ‘It’s Fucking Fascism’
Julyssa Lopez, Rolling Stone
The musician and activist joined Hands Off NYC at 26 Federal Plaza and performed Woody Guthrie's “This Land is Your Land."
May 12, 2026, 7:41 PM
Is the U.S. in a new era of political violence? Experts say it’s complicated
Jackie Flynn Mogensen, Scientific American
Researchers who study political violence say that the U.S. is in a period of more intense political rhetoric, but there have been far darker periods in the nation’s history
May 12, 2026, 10:00 AM
Activists Install Arcade Game Mocking Trump on the National Mall. You Can Play It in Your Browser Right Now
AJ Dellinger, Gizmodo.com
You'll lose this war, too, but at least it'll only cost a quarter.
May 11, 2026, 8:50 PM
Trans athlete dominates California girls’ track meet as protesters demand: ‘Keep men out of women’s sports’
Daniel Farr, New York Post
AB Hernandez swept the field in multiple events at a California girls’ track meet while protesters demanded biological males be barred from competing against girls.
May 10, 2026, 3:13 AM
Jonathan Turley vs. the Mob
Americanthinker.com
Photo Credit: Simon & SchusterJonathan Turley reveals the threat that mobocracy embodies against a healthy, stable republic
May 3, 2026, 4:00 AM