Author: Wire Service

The Dyer Anti-Lynching Bill was first introduced in 1918 in the 65th United States Congress by Representative Leonidas C. Dyer with the intention to establish lynching as a federal crime. Congress has given final approval to legislation that for the first time would make lynching a federal hate crime in the United States, sending the bill to President Joe Biden to sign into law. Years in the making, the Emmett Till Antilynching Act, passed late on March 7, is among some 200 bills that have been introduced over the past century that have tried to ban lynching in America....

Modeled after recent trucker protests in Canada, truck drivers in the United States are planning on setting off on a massive cross-country drive towards Washington DC to protest against coronavirus restrictions. Organizers of the “People’s Convoy” say they want to “jumpstart the economy” and reopen the country. Their 11-day trek that is estimated to be 2,500 miles long will approach the Beltway – which encircles the U.S. capital – on March 5 “but will not be going into DC proper,” according to a statement. Separate truck convoys have been planned through online forums with names like the People’s Convoy...

From restaurants across the country closing early or altogether because of staff shortages to sign-on bonuses stretching into the six-figure mark, proof of the power that workers wield in the United States jobs market is everywhere. The combination of a near-record number of job openings and too few job seekers to fill them has put American workers in their strongest bargaining position in decades. On January 25, the U.S. Department of Labor will announce how many workers told their employers “I quit” in December, as well as how many job openings there were at the end of last year....

U.S. senators have undermined President Joe Biden’s push to defend voting rights against what Democrats have framed as an all-out assault by conservative states targeting racial minorities. Faced with a blockade from Republicans in the upper house complaining of overreach by the federal government, the ruling Democrats were unable to push through the Freedom to Vote Act and John Lewis Voting Rights Advancement Act that were passed recently by the House of Representatives. “I am profoundly disappointed that the Senate has failed to stand up for our democracy. I am disappointed – but I am not deterred,” Biden said...