Новости за 16.09.2016

The Working Families Party (WFP) of Rhode Island won four key victories in the state’s Democratic primary election this week, defeating conservative incumbents by endorsing candidates who support a $15 minimum wage, paid sick leave for workers, racial and gender equality and other progressive issues.

During the Cold War, much of the political art of the 1930s was overlooked, overshadowed by other artistic movements like Abstract Expressionism. Now, however, the period is receiving more attention.

When protestors took to the streets of Ferguson, Mo., in 2014 in response to the police killing of 18-year-old Michael Brown, they also turned the nation’s attention to a related issue: the growing militarization of local law enforcement. Images of suburban police threatening demonstrators with armored vehicles and assault rifles prompted changes to the controversial 1033 program, through which the Department of Defense (DOD) transfers surplus military equipment to police departments nationwide.

By the 1980s, Tyree Guyton’s childhood stomping grounds on Heidelberg Street on Detroit’s east side were nearly unrecognizable from the middle-class neighborhood of his youth—a victim of the city’s rapid population drop and continued loss of manufacturing jobs.