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September 9, 2008 -
Although Barack Obama and John McCain have barely touched on the issue of immigration, in towns across the South and country the immigration war is at a high boil.
September 7, 2008 -
By Bill Quigley in New Orleans
July 30, 2008 -
Arkansas-based Wal-Mart has more than 4,000 stores and distribution centers across the United States -- and the group Wal-Mart Watch is trying to map every single one of them.
July 23, 2008 -
As politicians from across the South clamor to lift the federal ban on offshore oil drilling, the disaster that took place early this morning near New Orleans highlights the very real dangers faced by oil-producing communities.
July 22, 2008 -
Several black leaders, community groups, and legislatures voiced outrage when the North Carolina Senate did not take up the North Carolina Racial Justice Act bill before adjourning last week.
July 8, 2008 -
Coca-Cola has agreed to pay $137.5 million to settle a shareholder lawsuit charging officials at the Atlanta-based company with misrepresenting or omitting information from public statements, causing artificial inflation of stock prices. The plaintiffs in the class-action suit were led by two union pension funds: the Carpenters Health & Welfare Fund of Philadelphia, which held about $80 million in company stock at the time of the filing, and and Local 144 Nursing Home Pension Fund, now called 1199 SEIU Greater New York Pension Fund.
June 30, 2008 -
A week after leading climate scientist James Hansen called for radical steps to prevent environmental chaos caused by greenhouse gas pollution, 13 people were arrested today during a blockade of Dominion's Richmond headquarters to protest the granting of an air permit earlier this month for the company's planned new coal-burning power plant in Wise Coun
