by Terrance Heath | Aug 29, 2014 | Progressive Vision
Michael Brown has been laid to rest. The National Guard has begun “systematically withdrawing,” and calm has returned to the streets of Ferguson, Missouri. With no more dramatic scenes, and no major news to cover unless or until investigations lead to litigation,...
by Harvey J Kaye | Aug 27, 2014 | Progressive Vision
On Labor Day weekend 2007 the Guardian "Comment is Free" editor commissioned me to write a piece on labor and progressive possibilities. I published the piece posted below, which the editor titled "TO BE FRANKLIN: Seventy years on he is still under attack from the...
by Terrance Heath | Aug 25, 2014 | Progressive Vision
[fve]http://youtu.be/SUA-nDeJ8-o?list=UUeBaVCo1Abl6J-g5E1x080w[/fve] North Carolina’s Moral Mondays Movement on Friday launched a “Moral Week of Action” that will run through Thursday to demand that Republicans “repent and repeal” their public policy attacks on the...
by Jim Hightower | Aug 20, 2014 | Progressive Vision
The tragedies unfolding in Ferguson, Missouri, are doubly infuriating.First, there is the obvious outrage of yet another unarmed black teenager being stopped by one of the town’s white police officers as he was walking to his grandmother’s home. A scuffle ensued, and...
by Kareem Abdul-Jabbar | Aug 19, 2014 | Progressive Vision
You probably have heard of the Kent State shootings: on May 4, 1970, the Ohio National Guard opened fire on student protesters at Kent State University. During those 13 seconds of gunfire, four students were killed and nine were wounded, one of whom was permanently...
by Digby | Aug 18, 2014 | Progressive Vision
The Village wants to know now. In many ways, Obama’s difficulty in navigating matters of race as president mirrors his struggles in other areas. He has repeatedly and eloquently spoken about race — and his experiences in making his way in the world as the son of a...
