by Libero Della Piana | Apr 4, 2018 | Blog
Rev. Dr. Martin Luther King Jr. was gunned down fifty years ago today on April 4, 1968. It was a turning point of the twentieth century, marking an ending and a beginning. It was the end of one phase of the Black Freedom struggle, and the beginning of one of the most...
by Libero Della Piana | Sep 28, 2017 | Blog
Fresh off their failure to repeal the Affordable Care Act, Congressional Republicans are aglow with the hope of passing sweeping tax cuts. It’s as if Trump has cast himself as the villain in a cheap horror film. In this B movie, he flails around with an axe, trying to...
by Libero Della Piana | Sep 25, 2017 | Blog
President Donald Trump has done something no one else could do until now. He has united the National Football League around the National Anthem protest of quarterback Colin Kaepernick. Friday, Trump went on a tirade aimed at Kaepernick and other professional athletes...
by Libero Della Piana | Aug 23, 2017 | Blog
The rabid, racial-nationalist Trump was on full display in Phoenix Tuesday night, in a speech CNN’s Don Lemon called “A total eclipse of the facts.” The Phoenix Trump stood in sharp contrast to the more conciliatory Trump we heard just one night before, in his...
by Libero Della Piana | Aug 15, 2017 | Blog
Saturday night I arrived in Virginia as the conscience of the country and world turned toward the state. Earlier that day, hundreds of organized white supremacists gathered for a “Unite the Right” rally in Charlottesville in the mountainous Western part of the state,...
