by Bernie Horn | Jun 22, 2015 | Blog, Democracy
We’ve had this discussion before. Over recent years, state and local governments have gradually recognized that flying the Confederate battle flag is offensive and inappropriate. For example, Florida took down that flag in 2001, and even South Carolina took a partial...
by Robert Borosage | Jun 22, 2015 | Blog, Democracy, Progressive Vision
The doors of “Mother Emanuel” – the Emanuel AME Church in Charleston, S.C. that was savaged by the act of racial terrorism that killed nine of its members, including the head pastor – opened for regular services on Sunday. Blacks and whites, members and visitors...
by Isaiah J. Poole | Jun 18, 2015 | Blog, Democracy
It was not a matter of if, but from where, some disgusting and barbaric reaction would come to Wednesday night's terror attack at the Emanuel AME Church in Charleston, S.C. in which nine people died. Not surprisingly, Fox News was among the first out of the gate. The...
by Joshua Ferrer | Jun 12, 2015 | Democracy
Hillary Clinton gave a powerful and historic speech last Thursday on voting rights at Howard University. She called voting a “fundamental American principle,” and put forward many great policy proposals, including repairing the Voting Rights Act, instituting mandatory...
by Donald Kaul | Jun 10, 2015 | Blog, Democracy
When Dennis Hastert was indicted for trying to cover up some $3.5 million in hush money payments to a man he’d allegedly sexually abused decades ago, Washington was shocked. I wasn’t. I was shocked that Hastert, who’d spent the better part of his life in public...
by Terrance Heath | Jun 10, 2015 | Blog, Democracy, Economy
Police violence against unarmed African Americans occurs against a too-often-ignored backdrop of economic disparity that both fuels and informs the resentments and racial tensions behind the events. As Rep. Keith Ellison wrote in an oped for The Guardian, encounters...
