Ray Levy-Uyeda

Last fall, a 6-year-old girl named Kaia Rolle was arrested at her school in Orlando, Florida, for a tantrum she had earlier in the day. Rolle had kicked and punched three school faculty members, but at the time of her arrest by an Orlando police…

On June 7, 2010, a Mexican teenager, Sergio Hernández Guereca, was playing a game with friends at the U.S.-Mexico border. The objective was to cross the border, touch the fence that separates the two countries, and run back. In the early evening, a…

On Friday, New York Rep. Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez endorsed seven progressive women candidates through her newly formed political action committee, Courage to Change. The endorsed candidates aren’t just up against Republicans, but also battling…

For a moment after the 2018 midterm elections, it seemed that 1.6 million Floridians (or roughly 25% of the nation’s disenfranchised formerly incarcerated population) would get back their right to vote via Amendment 4, also known as the Voting…

On Wednesday, the legal team of former Army intelligence analyst Chelsea Manning filed a motion to release her from the Alexandria Detention Center in Virginia, where she has been incarcerated since last May for refusing to testify before a grand…

During Wednesday night's Democratic primary debate, former New York City Mayor Mike Bloomberg was eviscerated on stage for his record on everything from stop and frisk to his use of non-disclosure agreements in settlement cases for the 40…

On Tuesday, in a flurry of clemency, President Trump pardoned or commuted the sentences of 11 Americans. Typically, presidents pardon or offer commutations to nonviolent drug offenders serving a disproportionately long time behind bars, and they…

When the Associated Press published an investigation earlier this month detailing the bungling of the 2003 case against Myon Burrell, it threw a wrench into Minnesota Sen. Amy Klobuchar's presidential campaign. That's because Klobuchar, then an…

On Thursday, California Gov. Gavin Newsom is expected to sign House Resolution 77, which formally apologizes for the internment of Japanese Americans during World War II. The legislation, introduced by California state lawmaker Al Muratsuchi,…

In response to Virginia’s ratification of the Equal Rights Amendment, the House of Representatives voted last week to remove the deadline for ratification in a largely party-line vote. Virginia became the 38th state needed to ratify the Equal Rights…

School-aged children spend six to seven hours a day in school, yet they receive just five hours of nutritional education on average in a given year. A new bill introduced this week by Sens. Cory Booker (D-New Jersey) and John Cornyn (R-Texas) aims…

Closing arguments began today in the New York trial of accused serial sexual abuser Harvey Weinstein. Over 100 women have come forward with claims that Weinstein intimidated, raped, or otherwise assaulted them, though the New York trial centers…

Over 40 indigenous water protectors and non-indigenous activists were arrested in British Columbia and across Canada on Monday, during protests of a multibillion dollar natural gas pipeline that would run through unceded Wet’suwet’en Nation tribal…

Shortly after midnight Tuesday, voting began in the New Hampshire primary to see how many of the state’s 24 Democratic delegates the party's 2020 hopefuls can grab. Granite State voters take part in a “semi-closed” primary, which means that they can…