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“A must-attend event!” reads a recent Facebook post by Granbury school district trustee Dr. Paula McDonald. The topic? Critical Race Theory (CRT), the concept that developed from academic scholarship in the 1970s through the late 1980s as a means of understanding the relationship between race and power and the role
How a Surprisingly Anti-Capitalist Self-Help Book Could Help Deepen Our Democracy Pete Davisâs âDedicatedâ makes the case for how prioritizing community over corporations could benefit us all. In the past ten years, Iâve lived in seventeen different places. Most of these are from hopping between apartments in college, but it still represents six different citiesâfive different times I decided I would reinvent myself by changing jobs, changing climates, and changing friends. Before I moved to Michigan, where I am now, I told my friends to expect to soon hear from t...
Alisha Oyler, George Floyd, and âThe Other Americaâ The Derek Chauvin trial shows us that we must address this countryâs deep-seated inequalities to put an end to police killings. Attorney Steve Schleicher: âPlease explain to the jury, why did you continue to record what you were seeing here?â Witness Alisha Oyler: âBecause . . . I always see the police, and theyâre always messing with people and itâs wrong and itâs not right.â As the trial of Derek Chauvin draws to a close, in a welter of expert testimony and talk of the crumbling blue w...
The phone -- make sure the kids hear words. >> so, joining me now, policy strategist elena beverly, who worked for the obama administration, michelle bernard, president of the bernard center for women, public politics and policy and our msnbc political analyst. elena, first to you. what did you think of biden's response to the legacy of slavery? were you satisfied by it? >> jameel smith has a piece about this in "rolling stone" people should read. he called it a racial disaster, and i have to agree. you know, joe biden has the support of the black community. we form so much of his constituency...
Welcome back to "the van jones show." i'm here with this great group of house democrats. give them another round of applau applause. [ applause ] let's get down to it. i want to get to 2020. you're already on team sanders, and how can you, representing silicon valley, representing all those billionaires -- >> that's exactly why i'm for bernie sanders. he understands the income inequality. a lot of people in silicon vaily understand we have to deal with the wealth divide. he also wants to stop unconstitutional wars. the biggest takeaway from this, is he wants a woman running mate and i say th...