by Terrance Heath | Apr 12, 2013 | Uncategorized
If you were stuck on the Washington beltway during the evening rush hour yesterday, you might have suspected that the Washington Metro area's crumbling beltway had already begun to collapse. Fortunately, yesterday's gridlock wasn't the result of a beltway collapse or...
by Terrance Heath | Apr 10, 2013 | Blog
It's hard to imagine a more relevant moment for the National Urban League to release its State of Black America 2013 report. This year, after all, marks the 50th anniversary of the 1963 March on Washington and the 150th anniversary of the Emancipation Proclamation —...
by Terrance Heath | Apr 4, 2013 | The Sequester
"Honey, if you can't love yourself, how the hell you gonna love someone else?…..Can I get an amen?" -- RuPaul One of the most interesting things about the focus on marriage equality in the past couple of weeks has been the Republican Party's reaction to all the...
by Terrance Heath | Mar 29, 2013 | Blog
Everyone's talking about marriage this week. So it's hard to blame speaker of the Oklahoma House of Representatives T. W. Shannon for wanting to get in on the action with a bill to divert federal funds for the Temporary Assistance for Needy Families (TANF) to fund a...
by Terrance Heath | Mar 28, 2013 | Uncategorized
"The Time is always right," Dr. Martin Luther King Jr. said, "to do the right thing." Unfortunately, that's not always true in Washington. Courage and conviction is too often in short supply in Washington. Those with the power to set in motion the kind of change that...
