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August has come, the traditional month for vacations and staycations. We are approaching 80 years since Pearl Harbor and the U.S. entry into World War II. If you are lucky

Many people who came of age in the 1950s and 60s view the Supreme Court as a force for good when it comes to race. But the court has often been the most anti-progressive branch of the federal government.

A new congressional resolution asserts it’s not only possible to end poverty, but morally necessary.

SOUDERTON — Along with being involved in specific programs to fight poverty, such as food banks, improved health care or restoring clean water to poor communities, the Poor Peoples Campaign

6 . 9 . 21 One hundred and sixty years ago, this country was fumbling into dissolution and civil war. Sixty years ago, it was fumbling with how to mark the wars Centennial. In 1961, the Confederate gray was still deemed honorable among the majority of white Southerners. By the time the Centennial came to a close four years later, the civil rights movement had swung into high gear, culminating that August with passage of the Voting Rights Act of 1965, which outlawed racial discrimination at the ...

It’s Time to Fully Address Poverty and Low Wages from the Bottom Up! Drawing on the transformational history of the First Reconstruction following the Civil War and the Second Reconstruction of the civil rights struggles of the 20th century, the Third Reconstruction is a revival of our constitutional commitment to establish justice, provide for the general welfare, end decades of austerity, and recognize that policies that center the 140 million are also good economic policies that can hea...

(via AP) For some reason, it seems to have become popular for political influencers to conjure the legacy of Jim Crow to push a particular agenda. Some have taken to referencing this dark period in American history to describe ideas, policies, or people they don’t like. As American political discourse descends deeper into utter absurdity, people are coming up with new and creative ways to be hyperbolic to the point of imbecility. Remember when Georgia passed its voting laws a couple of months...

Our current moment demands action of similarly historic proportions to heal and transform the nation. We need a Third Reconstruction.

Hinton will talk about policing and the protests in the wake of George Floyds death.

Voter suppression: A short history of the long conservative assault on Black voting power CNN 5/8/2021 Analysis by Brandon Tensley, CNN © William Lovelace/Hulton Archive/Getty Images African-American civil rights activist Martin Luther King, Jr. (1929 - 1968, centre) listening to a transistor radio in the front line of the third march from Selma to Montgomery, Alabama, to campaign for proper registration of black voters, 23rd March 1965. Among the other marchers are: Ralph ...