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The Infrastructure Bill Should Look After Our Future, and Our Past Clint Smith © Provided by The Atlantic (NATIONAL ARCHIVE / NEWSMAKERS / GETTY) In its $2 trillion infrastructure proposal, the Biden administration seeks to expand the public’s conception of what is and is not infrastructure. It is right to do so. Infrastructure is not just the bridge we drive across; it is the home health aides who look after our parents and grandparents. Infrastructure is not simply the tr...

When former Mississippi Supreme Court Chief Justice Bill Waller Jr. was weighing a run for governor in 2019, research was done on whether he could conduct a viable campaign as an independent. Waller, of course, opted to run as a Republican and later lost a runoff election in the primary to then-Lt. Gov. Tate Reeves, who had a massive campaign war chest and was viewed as the heavy favorite. At the time, Waller and others feared that an independent – even a former Supreme Court justice â€�...

Civil rights to the White House: Black leaders who blazed trails in US politics and changed American history By Chris Williams article The Martin Luther King Jr. Memorial is shown in the early morning light on Martin Luther King Day January 15, 2018 in Washington DC. (Photo by Win McNamee/Getty Images) The Civil Rights Movement marked a pivotal turning point in Black history. First gaining traction in the 1950s with Rosa Parks and the Montgomery Bus Boycott, civil rights advocates demonstrate...

While impeachment could have blocked Trump’s possibility at future political office, financial fallout over the Jan. 6 attack could harm him even more. Former President Donald Trump looks out his window as his motorcade drives through West Palm Beach, Fla., after arriving from Washington aboard Air Force One on Jan. 20, 2021. (Damon Higgins/The Palm Beach Post via AP) WASHINGTON  (CN) — As the impeachment trial of former President Donald Trump continued his legacy of creating new constitu...

4 Key Points About Trump and ‘Incitement’ Law His words are in question: President Donald Trump speaks Jan. 6 at the rally of supporters that preceded the riot at the Capitol. (Photo: Tasos Katopodis/Getty Images) If and when the Senate holds its second impeachment trial of Donald Trump, this time after he no longer is president, one argument in his defense may well be based on a legal precedent that has guided incitement cases since 1969.  The House of Representatives impeached the presid...

RBG, Kobe Bryant, Little Richard: Remembering notables who died in 2020 A look at the icons, newsmakers and stars we lost in a year dominated by COVID-19 and upheaval. David Colton, Special to USA TODAY Published 8:20 pm UTC Dec. 30, 2020 Corrections & clarifications: A previous version of this story had the incorrect year of Ray Manzarek’s death. He died in 2013. In this year of the coronavirus pandemic, deaths were often just a cold statistic. Grieving families barely had a moment to say...

The departed: Heroes, celebrities and rogues, from Oregon and beyond, who died in 2020 Updated Dec 28, 2020; Posted Dec 28, 2020 Among those we lost in 2020 (clockwise): Retired Lakers basketball star Kobe Bryant, Sisters of the Road co-founder Genny Nelson, former Trail Blazers executive Harry Glickman and sexuality expert Shere Hite. Facebook Share 2020 has been a rough year, and we’ve lost far too many people along the way. Below The Oregonian/OregonLive offers up a list, far from exhaus...

The Birmingham Times In any year, the deaths of great musicians, Hall of Fame athletes, elected officials, Civil Rights leaders, and others in the public arena are notable. But in 2020—one of the most bizarre years in history and certainly in recent memory—those losses seem to take on even more significance. Added to a year of devastating pandemic, civil unrest, and political turmoil were the losses of individuals, young and old, who’ve had a meaningful impact on our lives. Some were well...

Lawmakers taking to the house floor, paying tribute to legacy of the late congressman john lewis. civil rights leader c.t. vivian lying in state at the georgia capitol. his legacy being honored tonight. and we learned today of another civil rights icon who has died. charles evers, brother of slain activist medgar evers. he was 97. when we come back here tonight, the man who walked into a store and asked if he could play the piano. and what happened next. (bbut its even nicer knowing atthat if ...

Opening of the mississippi civil rights museum. there he gave a powerful speech. phil keating is live in west palm beach, florida, with more. phil, this is a pretty busy weekend for the president. >> reporter: absolutely, julie. much of the time not even being spent at the winter white house on palm beach. however, air force one is now back at the west palm beach airport, and president trump is now back at his mar-a-lago estate on palm beach having landed in the 2:00 hour from mississippi. and g...