by Jeff Bryant | May 8, 2013 | Education
By now it's become clear to anyone willing to pay attention that our nation's obsession over education standards and testing has gotten out of hand. Ratcheting education standards ever higher at the same time we cut supports that schools and students need to reach...
by Terrance Heath | Apr 19, 2013 | Uncategorized
Do you want to know what sequestration looks like on the ground, and where the real casualties will be found? Look to West, Texas, where an explosion at a fertilizer plant has claimed as many as 40 lives, injured more than 200, leveled entire neighborhoods, and driven...
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 Isaiah J. Poole | Apr 9, 2013 | Blog
When President Obama formally unveils his fiscal 2014 budget on Wednesday, a lot of the progressive movement focus will be on his plan to cut Social Security benefits through a reduced cost-of-living adjustment called the "chained CPI." But there will be another...
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...
