by Terrance Heath | Aug 6, 2015 | Blog, Progressive Vision
August 9 will mark one year since officer Darren Wilson shot and killed unarmed black teenager Michael Brown in Ferguson, Mo. Too many black lives are still lost to police violence, but movements are now demanding that black lives matter. Some things have changed in...
by Terrance Heath | Jul 31, 2015 | Blog, Conservatism, This Is The GOP
A beloved lion named Cecil was lured out of his sanctuary in Zimbabwe, and killed by an American hunter. The world mourned, and wingnuts roared that the lion’s death drew attention away from their scam to bring down Planned Parenthood. Walter Palmer, an American...
by Terrance Heath | Jul 30, 2015 | Blog, Conservatism, Health, This Is The GOP
Today is Medicare’s 50th birthday. It’s improved the lives of millions of Americans, and it can as much for even more people. That’s why Republicans have never stopped trying to end it. Fifty years ago today, Lyndon B. Johnson signed the Medicare amendment under Title...
by Terrance Heath | Jul 29, 2015 | Blog, Progressive Vision
When I heard of Sandra Bland’s death in a Texas jail, after a traffic stop on a dusty road in Waller County, Texas, I thought of the time my father gave me The Talk that generations of African-American parents have had with their children. My father’s father had it...
by Terrance Heath | Jul 27, 2015 | Blog, Economy, Election 2016, Progressive Vision
The stakes were high for the speech by Sen. Bernie Sanders (I-Vt.) to the national gathering of the Southern Christian Leadership Conference in Baton Rouge, Louisiana on Saturday night. Sanders’ speech to the civil rights organization, whose first president was Rev....
