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May 6, 2015 - Over 100 corporations will receive shareholder resolutions this year calling on them to voluntarily disclose their political spending and lobbying activities. Some companies have already begun disclosing this information voluntarily, including North Carolina-based tobacco giant Reynolds American.

March 27, 2015 - Looming over today's mass incarceration crisis are the shadows of slavery and of the brutal and profitable convict lease system that arose after slavery's end.

December 19, 2014 - A new study finds that the racial wealth gap in the U.S. is at its widest in decades.

July 3, 2014 - Political psychologists distinguish between "blind patriotism" that's intolerant and unquestioning and "constructive patriotism," which welcomes questioning with the hope of creating positive change. On this most patriotic of holidays, we share some of our favorite writings and songs in the spirit of the latter, and we invite you to do the same.

January 16, 2012 - In the final months of his life, Dr. King launched a Poor People's Campaign for economic justice with a familiar strategy: Occupying the National Mall in Washington, D.C.