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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 heal and transform the nation. Emerging from the pain and organizing power of the 140 million people ...

(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 ago? Democrats and their close friends and allies in the activist media went hog-wild on the airwav...

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 Floyd's 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 Abernathy (1926 - 1990, second from left), Ralph Bunche (1903 - 1971, third from right) and Rabbi Ab...