'Dolores,' a new documentary celebrating the life of Dolores Huerta, premieres March 27 on Independent Lens | PBS. In this interview, we talked with Dolores Huerta and director Peter Bratt about the film. In these dark times, Dolores inspires all of us to never give up.

"Water has become so scarce in this vast county — known as Turkana, in northwestern Kenya — that fetching it, which is women’s work, means walking an average of almost seven miles every day."

"The U.S. Court of Appeals in San Francisco ruled Wednesday that [the children's case], which the Obama administration first tried to extinguish in 2016, can proceed toward a trial. Trump’s Justice Department is expected to ask the Supreme Court to shut it down."

"Not one of the 23 analysts working in the department’s Global Engagement Center — which has been tasked with countering Moscow’s disinformation campaign — speaks Russian, and a department hiring freeze has hindered efforts to recruit the computer experts needed to track the Russian efforts."

"Thompson wrote that the statement was being changed 'in an effort to align HUD’s mission with the Secretary’s priorities and that of the Administration.'”

When it comes to lax gun laws and frequent gun violence, Florida is an epidemic in itself. The state’s compliant legislature has been used for several decades as a Petri dish by the gun-mad scientists of the NRA’s lobbying arm, the Institute for Legislative Action (ILA). Some history:

One of our team stumbled across this old article in her email from The Atlantic's Jim Fallows that is worth reading again. He explains the history of the AR-15 and "why this particular weapon is so unusually effective in killing... even when compared with other firearms."

Good breakdown from PBS NewsHour about the Mueller indictment of the Russian Internet Research Agency "troll factory."

“I hope these kids don’t give up, because this is their lives and their future,” Colbert said on The Late Show with Stephen Colbert. “Somebody else may be in power, but this country belongs to them. And there is reason for hope.” #WorthWatching

“In his resignation letter, obtained by Mother Jones, Hitzman said he was leaving the USGS because the agency had agreed to provide Interior Secretary Ryan Zinke with data from the Alaska energy assessment 'several days in advance of the information’s public release, in contradiction of my interpretation of USGS fundamental science policy.'”

The Consumer Financial Protection Bureau was created after the financial crisis to protect Americans from being ripped off by financial firms.

Now, President Trump's interim appointee to run the bureau, Mick Mulvaney, is making radical changes to deter the agency from aggressively pursuing its mission.

"When policymakers from around the world gather at a key U.N. climate meeting in Poland later this year, countries will be forced to reckon with the difference between how much they say they want to limit the warming of the planet and how little they actually are doing to make that happen."

“We might be 16 now and we might not be able to vote, but we can protest and we can use social media and we will make our voices heard,” student Whitney Bowen said. “At the end of the day, it doesn’t come down to politics. It comes down to kids dying in classrooms.”