Justice

February 7, 2014 - As workers at Nissan's plant in Canton, Miss. fight for the right to an intimidation-free union election, workers at the Volkswagen plant in Chattanooga, Tenn. prepare to vote in a secret-ballot election beginning Feb. 12.

February 6, 2014 - The North Carolina people's movement that led to over 900 arrests during nonviolent protests at the legislature last year is readying for a mass march on the state capitol this Saturday -- its first big public action in a pivotal election year.

January 28, 2014 - When President Obama delivers his State of the Union address tonight, among the guests of First Lady Michelle Obama will be a recent graduate of Elizabeth City State University, a historically black school in North Carolina that was at the center of heated battles over voting rights last year.

January 23, 2014 - Sacrificing the health of the people and planet, 590,000 additional barrels of oil will now flow to refineries on the Gulf.

January 20, 2014 - Dr. Martin Luther King Jr. was assassinated in Memphis while speaking out for striking sanitation workers. The civil rights community is once again rallying behind struggling workers in the city -- this time, union employees who were locked out of the Kellogg cereal factory, where the workforce is majority African-American.

January 17, 2014 - A new report by United for a Fair Economy examines the racial economic implications of one of the most important human rights issues and public policy debates of the day: health care.

January 14, 2014 - North Carolina Gov. Pat McCrory's decision to put off a special election to fill the open 12th Congressional District seat until November has been criticized for denying representation to some 700,000 people for almost a year. Now a leading civil rights group is considering legal action to force an earlier vote.