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Opinion: Jackson water crisis shows Nina Simone is still right about Mississippi CNN 3/14/2021 Opinion by Keri Leigh Merritt © Michael M. Santiago/Getty Images A brother and sister sit while their mother volunteers at a water and food distribution drive in Jackson, Mississippi after the city was hit by back-to-back winter storms. Summoned to the South by Marian Wright of the NAACP, Senators Robert F. Kennedy and Joseph Clark traveled to the Mississippi Delta in the Spring of 1967 to assess the effectiveness of the federal War on Poverty programs. Wright had testified befo...

Dallas Examiner President Biden’s cabinet reflects a more just and inclusive United States of America   This year’s Women’s History Month sees our nation moving forward and including women at all levels of authority including Kamala Harris as our vice president. President Biden has nominated other extraordinary women for cabinet and sub-cabinet positions. Rep. Marcia Fudge, D-Ohio, former Congressional Black Caucus chair, has been nominated to become the second Black woman Secretary of Housing and Urban Development following Patricia Roberts Harris. Isabel Guzman has been nominated to ...

Guido Goldman, who forged closer ties between Germany and U.S., dies at 83 Harrison Smith, The Washington Post Dec. 10, 2020 FacebookTwitterEmail The cause was prostate cancer, said his friend Karl Kaiser, a longtime colleague at Harvard University. Modest and convivial, with a self-deprecating wit, Goldman was a behind-the-scenes force in European-American relations for more than five decades, with a special focus on fostering connections between Germany and the United States after World War II. He helped build Harvard's Center for European Studies, founded the German Marshall Fund of the U...

He was a scholar, community builder and art collector who founded the German Marshall Fund, a Washington policy organization.

the poor people's campaign of 1968 next on booktv. he examines the anti-poverty effort organized by martin luther king jr. and the relationship between african-americans and mexican americans within the movement. it's about one hour. >> thanks, tom. i appreciate it. thank you everyone for being here tonight. i appreciate it. i feel a little like an airline pilot and telling you i know we have choices and so thank you for flying southwest. there are increased three of 3 cents going to write about economic justice that care about these issues and it also says a lot about the state of t...