"We’re talking tens of thousands, if not hundreds of thousands, of people could be removed very quickly, according to these orders."

Former black liberation activist Zolo Azania, who spent 35 years in prison—27 on death row—is free.

Seventy-five years ago today, President Franklin D. Roosevelt signed Executive Order 9066, deciding to imprison 120,000 Japanese Americans and legal residents in camps across the U.S.

The board of directors of New York City’s public library system has voted to name Harlem’s 115th Street library after legendary activist, civil rights leader and entertainer Harry Belafonte. Belafonte turns 90 years old on March 1.

Protester: "David Friedman, you promote racism, fund illegal settlements. We will not be silenced. You do not represent us, and you will never represent us."

Amy Goodman writes, "The mainstream media credits a Republican revolt with the defeat of Andrew Puzder as labor secretary. In the case of Lt. Gen. Michael Flynn, the media says it was leaks from the intelligence community that took him down. But the engine driving both ousters are movements of thousands upon thousands of people across the country, saying 'no' to hate, bigotry and injustice."

The Pentagon has admitted that U.S. warplanes fired depleted uranium munitions during air raids in Syria, despite a vow not to use the toxic and radioactive weapons in the battlefield.

"If ICE comes knocking," says Rev. Mike Morran, "we will ask them if they have a warrant. And if they do not have a warrant, we will tell them they cannot come in."

ThinkProgress editor Alan Pyke: Under Alex Acosta's oversight, the Civil Rights Division of the Department of Justice "was permanently sabotaged by a couple of years of intentional misconduct."

"Supposedly, I am a criminal because… I had false documents to work and put food on the table for my children. But what should we call you, Mr. President Trump, when you have been evading taxes for years?" - Undocumented mother Jeanette Vizguerra

Young DREAMers came out of the shadows and gave their information to the U.S. government to remain in the country legally. What does it mean when the government, which took their information, now turns against them?

President Donald Trump assailed the media and defended his administration as a "fine-tuned machine" Thursday in a combative and rambling news conference at the White House.

"It was like doomsday," said survivor Mohammad Ashfaq.

The frontrunner to become President Trump's science adviser called climate scientists a "glassy-eyed cult" and falsely accused the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration (NOAA) of manipulating climate data.