New Attack on Voting Rights

New Attack on Voting Rights

Until 1965, Black people couldn’t vote in most of the South. On Sunday, March 7,, 1965, police in Selma, Alabama and state troopers mounted on horseback clubbed hundreds of Black people who attempted to march across the Edmund Pettus bridge to demand the right...
California State University Faculty Go On Strike

California State University Faculty Go On Strike

Over the past week, members of the California Faculty Association (CFA) at the California State University (CSU) system went on strike across the state. The CSU system is the largest four-year public university system in the United States. After a 95 percent strike...
Baltimore: Nurses at Saint Agnes Hospital Win Union Recognition

Baltimore: Nurses at Saint Agnes Hospital Win Union Recognition

Registered nurses (RNs) at Ascension Saint Agnes Hospital have successfully voted to form a union, claiming a historic victory as the first Baltimore hospital with a nurses’ union. The new union represents 522 nurses who work at the facility in Southwest Baltimore and...