by Jacqueline Bediako | Jun 22, 2018 | Blog
Arrive on the scene. Shoot. Bang. Dead child. Gone forever. Mother crying. Blood pressure, spiked. Doom, imminent. Siblings, distraught. Funeral. This predictable chain of events is what seems to happen when police officers arrive on the scene. Calling the police...
by Leo Gerard | Jun 22, 2018 | Blog
By signing an executive order ending forced separation of immigrant families, President Donald Trump has admitted that this cruel practice was his administration’s policy and that he could have stopped it at any time. Despite having the power to stop taking children...
by Tim Wilkins | Jun 22, 2018 | Blog
I first saw them sitting as a group in Terminal B at Dallas International Airport. Clean-cut young teens in matching sweatsuits - must be a volleyball team from a private middle school, I thought. They looked weary, but so was I - we'd just found out that our American...
by Jeff Bryant | Jun 22, 2018 | Blog
Having a democratically governed local school, accessible to all students and fully accountable to the public for how its spends taxpayer money, has been a given for most American families since segregated schools were outlawed, but a new report finds most states have...
by Brandy Brooks | Jun 21, 2018 | Blog
“What qualifies you to run for office?” That’s a question I get a lot as I meet voters in my campaign for Montgomery County Council’s at-large seat. To me, it hits at the heart of why I’m running. I’m a working class, Black Latina living in a multi-racial,...
by Tim Wilkins | Jun 19, 2018 | Blog
Every child understands the pain losing one’s loved ones – even for a moment – can cause. So children have plenty to say about the U.S. government’s separation of thousands of migrant families, with no promise to parents or children they’ll ever see each other again....
