‘Law & Order: SVU’ star Mariska Hargitay’s rape kit backlog campaign marks legislative wins in all 50 statesAfter 16 years, the End the Backlog campaign has successfully driven rape kit reform legislation in all 50 states, Washington, D.C. and Puerto Rico. Maine became the final state to enact at least one of...READ MORE
Activists paid for the Voting Rights Act in blood. The supreme court has undermined itThe supreme court paved the way for racial discrimination in voting, 60 years after Martin Luther King Jr and thousands of other movement leaders bled, marched and mobilized for Congress to outlaw it. This is...READ MORE
The supreme court’s voting rights decision is a death knell for American democracyIs America a democracy? The term implies an equality of rights and dignity among citizens, a collective and uniform right of individuals to participate in self-government and to shape the laws that rule them. In...READ MORE
Social media star Shirley Raines dies after years helping homeless in L.A.Raines was known as “Ms Shirley”, to her more than 5 million TikTok followers and to the people who regularly lined up for the food, beauty treatments and hygiene supplies she brought to Los Angeles’...READ MORE
Governor Newsom announces free entry to California State Parks on MLK DayDonald Trump scrapped free entry to National Parks on Martin Luther King Jr. Day, replaced it with his own birthday, and is erasing civil rights history. California won’t follow that path. As California soon celebrates...READ MORE
Trump’s anti-climate agenda won’t just hurt the planet, but American incomes, tooPrevious research has found that global heating has driven up utility costs, home insurance premiums and healthcare bills. But according to the new study, published in the Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences journal,...READ MORE
‘Law & Order: SVU’ star Mariska Hargitay’s rape kit backlog campaign marks legislative wins in all 50 states
