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On a hot August day at a community space on Los Angeles’ Skid Row, about two dozen youth of color from the undocumented-led Immigrant Youth Coalition (IYC) gathered for a workshop. At the front of the room an activist from the Stop LAPD Spying Coalition, which aims to end police surveillance programs, gave instructions to the participants. On pieces of paper folded into four quarters,...

CORRECTION: Agudas Israel Congregation is not participating in the petition effort, as stated in the story. When the new Henderson County sheriff takes over next week, some in the community want him to end the county’s partnership with federal immigration authorities that began in 2008 under Sheriff Rick Davis. First Congregational United Church of Christ in Hendersonville is urging Sheriff-elect Lowell Griffin to rescind that...

At the height of his pre-election push to make Americans fear a caravan of Central American migrants making their way through Mexico, President Trump held a press conference during which he suggested it may be necessary to use lethal force against asylum-seekers once they reach the U.S. border. “They want to throw rocks at our military, our military fights back,” he said. “I told them...

Public-health activists claim victory after the American Public Health Association on Tuesday approved a statement recognizing police violence as a public health issue. Three years of organizing came down to a few minutes and a room of public-health professionals voting with clickers. The American Public Health Association (APHA) on Tuesday overwhelmingly approved a statement recognizing law enforcement violence as a public health issue. It was...