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March 11, 2013 - For the first time, reports estimate the number of LGBT immigrants in the U.S. -- a group that's been on the frontline of the immigrant rights movement.

October 11, 2012 - Civil rights leader Judith Browne Dianis of The Advancement Project makes the case for a new constitutional amendment protecting the right to vote, which most of the world's democracies already have.

October 4, 2012 - Asian Americans have been trending Democratic but remain highly independent, and their numbers are growing in the key Southern swing states of North Carolina and Virginia.

August 22, 2012 - Louisiana's school voucher program, meant to give low-income families greater choice, leaves fewer options for students with disabilities.

July 12, 2012 - Before its purchase by Wells Fargo, North Carolina-based Wachovia laundered over $378 billion for illegal drug organizations -- and paid just $160 million in fines. It's part of a broader and disturbing trend in the U.S. banking industry.

June 5, 2012 - Republican claims of alleged voter fraud have convinced legions of Americans that massive numbers of mostly blacks and Hispanics with the connivance of Democrats are knowingly breaking the law to vote against the GOP -- when in reality it's just the opposite.

May 31, 2012 - Research by the Urban Institute finds a high rate of veterans who lack insurance in states like Louisiana that have been slow to implement provisions of the Affordable Care Act.

April 5, 2012 - 2011 saw a record number of laws restricting abortion in U.S. states. It also saw a record number of state anti-immigrant laws. Coincidence? Maybe not.

February 1, 2012 - Few realize Black History Month's ties to the history of coal miners in West Virginia. And as mountaintop removal mining continues there, that history is in danger of being erased.

November 10, 2011 - Members of black, Latino and other ethnic media met recently in the city that was at the center of the civil rights movement to explore responses to Alabama's anti-immigration law.