by Terrance Heath | Aug 1, 2013 | Blog
In the days before and after George Zimmerman was acquitted in the death of 17-year-old Trayvon Martin, Florida police posted PSA's encouraging blacks not to riot, and monitored social media for hints about when and where violence might occur. The judge even delayed...
by Terrance Heath | Aug 1, 2013 | Uncategorized
For 13 weeks, the North Carolina state house in Raleigh was the focus of "Moral Mondays" — a progressive movement organized by the state's NAACP president, Rev. William Barber, in response to what he called North Carolina GOP's “mean-spirited quadruple attack” on the...
by Terrance Heath | Jul 19, 2013 | Minimum Wage
This summer, in major cities like New York, Seattle, Washington DC, Milwaukee, Chicago, Detroit, and St. Louis, thousands of workers have taken to the streets protest workplace abuse, poor working conditions, and wage theft. But most of all workers across the country...
by Terrance Heath | Jul 18, 2013 | Uncategorized
Attorney General Eric Holder may be getting a reputation for saying what President Obama can’t, thanks to the irony of a black president. While Obama has shifted from calling for compassion to encouraging calm in the aftermath of George Zimmerman’s acquittal in the...
by Terrance Heath | Jul 17, 2013 | Uncategorized
The Senate didn’t quite go nuclear, but it came as close as it has in a long time. Close enough, in fact, to break through some Republican obstruction of presidential nominees, and fill some important vacancies. The filibuster-ending deal Senate Majority Leader Harry...
