US Politics
US Politics
What Does ‘Patriotism’ Mean To You?
[Pardon My Rant] The ideas of “Patriotism” and “Dissent” should never be at odds with each other. However, many times when we celebrate July ...
Arrival of First Enslaved Africans in Virginia Commemorated
[History And Legacy] August 17th and 20th, honor the First Africans who arrived in America on British occupied territory at Point Comfort (Fort Monroe) ...
Roberts’ Supreme Court’s conservative assault on Civil Rights
Ever since the first 20 and some odd African “indentured servants” disembarked from that Dutch man of war in Jamestown, VA in 1619, Africans ...
How Media Abandoned Real Story In “Search” For Snowden
[Op-Ed] The Spinning Of Corporate Media I stopped watching any news about the NSA leaks. Why? Well no one seemed to be reporting ...
Blacks, Gays, and Justice
What’s becoming of Dr. King’s dream? [LAW OF THE LAND] On his long march for voting rights Dr. Martin Luther King said, “the arc ...
WYOMING: PLEA DEAL ERASES FELONY ASSAULT CHARGE ON BLACK NATIVE MAN’S ASSAILANT
James E. “Skip” Crooks [Nation] This story was first published in WyoFile (RIVERTON, Wyo.) The Fremont County Attorney’s office has offered a plea agreement ...
The Supremes: The Very Strange Mind Of Justice Clarence Thomas
[The Supreme Court] I am disgusted by Justice Thomas’s continued willingness to turn his back on his own race and deny his brothers and ...
With Racial Justice For Some
[Law Of The Land] Trayvon Martin’s parents seek justice for a son killed for walking while Black. The Court gutted Voting Rights. Paula Deen is caught using racial slurs. Yet, the ...
Supreme Court Castrates Voting Rights Act
Lyndon Johnson shown with Dr. King after signing Voting Rights Act Nothing now stands in the way of Voter ID Laws, except new resistance ...
Solution: Class-Based Affirmative Action For Colleges?
Lani Guinier [Supreme Court: Op-Ed] Affirmative action occupies a telling place in a nation painfully aware of its racial inequities yet painfully divided over ...
