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Thousands mark March on Washington
By Alan Gomez & Eliza Collins Tens of thousands gathered Saturday on the nation’s “front yard,” the National Mall near the Lincoln Memorial, yearning for a bit of that transcendent sense of racial unity heralded on this spot by the … Continue reading
50 years after the March on Washington, what would MLK march for today?
By Peter Dreier What would the Rev. Martin Luther King Jr. march for if he were alive today? America has made progress on many fronts in the half-century since King electrified a crowd of 200,000 people, and millions of Americans … Continue reading
Bayard Rustin: the gay black pacifist at the heart of the March on Washington
By Gary Younge When civil rights leaders met at the Roosevelt Hotel in Harlem in early July 1963 to hammer out the ground rules by which they would work together to organise the March on Washington there was really only … Continue reading
Generation X — the weakest generation?
By Dana Milbank In my mother’s telling, I exist because of the March on Washington . Her account went something like this: In 1963, she was a student at Goddard College, an experimental school in Vermont that attracted the forerunners … Continue reading
Raising The Minimum Wage Is A Political Goldmine
By Ruy Teixeira Wouldn’t it be nice if there was an issue that was hugely popular with the public, fit perfectly into the progressive agenda, appealed to the white working class, and split the Republican Party right in half? Sounds … Continue reading
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Tagged Democratic, income inequality, minimum wage, money, Public opinion, republican, United States, wages, working-class
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Trayvon Martin’s parents on path to forgive George Zimmerman
It has been more than a month since George Zimmerman was acquitted by a jury of the murder of Trayvon Martin. In their first British media interview since the verdict, the teenager’s parents told the BBC’s Rajini Vaidyanathan they are working hard to … Continue reading
Immiseration: Deliberative Impoverishment and Racial Profiling
By Dr. Merelyn Bates-Mims ***Update: Please take the survey “Is good citizenship an effective guard against being profiled?”. It only takes a minute and the information is confidential. Here’s the link to the survey https://www.surveymonkey.com/s/VG8YRTV ~ SB. Thanks!!*** Immiseration? Don’t … Continue reading
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Tagged Alex Kotlowitz, Fifth Avenue, France, Jean Valjean, Les Misérable, politics, poverty, race, racial equity, United States, Victor Hugo
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Speaking in Raleigh, Colin Powell blasts North Carolina voting law
By John Murawski & John Frank Moments after Gov. Pat McCrory left the stage, former Secretary of State Colin Powell took aim at North Carolina’s new voting law Thursday, saying it hurts the Republican Party, punishes minority voters and makes … Continue reading
Plutocrats’ New Pitch: Let Us Rob You Now So You Can Plan Ahead for Poverty
By Lynn Stuart Parramore Somehow, I’ve wound up on the mailing list for a group of oligarchs campaigning to swindle Americans out of their hard-earned retirement insurance. Hedge fund billionaire Pete Peterson, the budget buffoons Erskine Bowles and Alan Simpson, … Continue reading
Rape Culture At Work: Five Examples Of How Employers Turn Women Into Sex Objects
By Tara Culp-Ressler and Bryce Covert It’s no secret that women face a disproportionate amount of discrimination in the workplace. One-third of women say they have been subject to some type of workplace discrimination at some point in their careers … Continue reading
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