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Jesse Jackson on M.L.K.: One Bullet Couldn’t Kill the Movement MARCH 30, 2018 By Yohuru Williams Rev. Jackson, who was part of King’s inner circle in 1968—and witnessed his assassination—weighs in on that shocking moment, its turbulent aftermath and carrying forth the dream. Read More
Tennessee lawmakers punish Memphis for removing statue of Confederate and KKK leader By Alex Horton A few years before Nathan Bedford Forrest became the leader of the Ku Klux Klan, and decades before a statue of him was dedicated in Memphis, the Confederate general overlooked Fort Pillow and planned how he would destroy the beacon for escaped slaves. […]
2 Ministers Are Trying To Revive The Campaign To End Poverty That MLK Started “The time is now — more than ever — for us to have a Poor People’s Campaign.” By Julia Craven He couldn’t stop thinking about them, their wide eyes and the silent hunger that lay behind them. Staring up at the […]
A return to debtors’ prisons: Jeff Sessions’ war on the poor One day after President Donald Trump invited Republican lawmakers to the White House to celebrate the historic tax cuts they passed for corporations and wealthy business leaders, his attorney general, Jeff Sessions, quietly reinstated a draconian policy that effectively serves as a regressive tax […]
https://obamawhitehouse.archives.gov/blog/2012/01/13/archives-president-reagan-designates-martin-luther-king-jr-day-federal-holiday RONALD REAGAN AND THE REWRITING OF MARTIN LUTHER KING’S LEGACY It’s become an MLK Day tradition for conservatives to point to King’s speeches on nonviolence and equality as a way to criticize modern black activists. Meanwhile, King’s popular image—transmitted in elementary school lessons for the holiday—has been drained of its radical social critiques and has […]
REMEMBERING BILLIE HOLIDAY Columbia Records/Courtesy Neal Peters Collection This April marks the 100th anniversary of the birth of Billie Holiday, the recording artist fondly known as “Lady Day.” Known as much for her demons as her pioneering jazz vocals, Holiday is a member of both the Grammy and the Rock and Roll Halls of […]
More to Think About: Education Supreme Court: Connecticut’s Education System Is Flawed, But Not Unconstitutional by Christine Stuart ctnewsjunkie.com HARTFORD, CT — The state Supreme Court ruled Wednesday that Connecticut’s education system is imperfect, but not unconstitutional. The decision may signal the end of 12 years of litigation over whether the state has been providing enough funding for […]
Women’s mass incarceration gets Whole Pie analysis by Aleks Kajstura With 219,000 women locked up in facilities operated by thousands of agencies, getting the big picture is anything but easy. In our new report, Women’s Mass Incarceration: The Whole Pie 2017, we use our “whole pie” approach to give the public and policymakers the foundation to […]
Governor Malloy signs criminal justice reform bills at Faith Congregational Church by Marc E. Fitch | Aug 2, 2017 | Good Government, Yankee News | Flanked by community leaders, politicians and organizations across the political spectrum, Governor Dannel Malloy signed legislation to reform Connecticut’s criminal justice system on Wednesday at Faith Congregational Church in Hartford. The governor signed a total of nine […]
7 videos Video by The Atlantic African Americans face disproportionate rates of lead poisoning, asthma, and environmental harm. Staff writer Vann R. Newkirk II argues that discrimination in public planning is to blame. “Pollution and the risk of disaster are assigned to black and brown communities through generations of discrimination and political neglect,” says Newkirk II. […]
Private Prisons In the early 1980s, the Corrections Corporation of America pioneered the idea of running prisons for a profit. “You just sell it like you were selling cars, or real estate, or hamburgers,” one of its founders told Inc. magazine. Today, corporate-run prisons hold eight percent of America’s inmates. Here’s how the private prison […]
Presented by Patricia Smith I’m standing here before you this morning because I’m sad about something that I saw on TV last Tuesday night. It bothered me so much that on Wednesday I called Pastor Camp and told him about what I had seen and how I thought that something should be mentioned in church […]
John Lewis Accepts National Book Award With Emotional Speech As a teenager, the congressman wasn’t even allowed to get a library card because of his race. Emily Tate Politics Intern, The Huffington Post In a powerful acceptance speech at the National Book Awards ceremony Wednesday night, civil rights icon Rep. John Lewis (D-Ga.) recalled how […]
Where the Public Stands on Religious Liberty vs. Nondiscrimination Two-thirds say employers should provide birth control in insurance plans, but public is split over same-sex wedding services and use of public bathrooms by transgender people The U.S. public expresses a clear consensus on the contentious question of whether employers who have religious objections to contraception […]