by Dave Johnson | Aug 21, 2013 | Uncategorized
Martin Luther King Jr. outlined his dream 50 years ago this weekend. We made much of it happen. Let's dream some more. Let's dream about what we could do in the next 50 years. Fifty years ago Martin Luther King Jr. led the March on Washington for Jobs and Freedom and...
by Jeff Bryant | Aug 21, 2013 | Education
Philadelphia, the place where the Declaration of Independence was signed and the Constitution was written, and the site of the oldest residential street in the United States, has become the site where the nation's drift away from its founding ideals is most acutely...
by Richard Eskow | Aug 4, 2013 | Uncategorized
When is it fair to say that some political battles aren't just disagreements over policy, but actually represent a struggle between 'good' and 'evil' points of view? And when, if ever, is it helpful to say so? There are those on the Right who debase the currency of...
by Terrance Heath | Aug 1, 2013 | Uncategorized
For 13 weeks, the North Carolina state house in Raleigh was the focus of "Moral Mondays" — a progressive movement organized by the state's NAACP president, Rev. William Barber, in response to what he called North Carolina GOP's “mean-spirited quadruple attack” on the...
by Isaiah J. Poole | Jul 11, 2013 | Minimum Wage
Progressives won a victory in Washington this week when the D.C. City Council stood up to Walmart and passed a bill that would require the retailer, and other nonunion big-box retailers, to pay their employees a $12.50 minimum wage. Walmart promptly announced that it...
