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Segregation is back in US schools
Sixty years after the Supreme Curt ruled that segregated public schools were unconstitutional, a new university report has found many of the gains of integration have been reversed. The problem we all...
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In It To Win It
Image: Kelly Price/AP Photo First of all, if you’re interested in the Mississippi Senate race, you need to be following following Sam Hall, a reporter with the Clarion-Ledger. He’s just the man on...
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Opinion: Hillary Clinton should stop poor-mouthing
Image: AP I am completely in favor of Hillary Clinton’s amassing vast amounts of money. Her desire to do so is very American. While our early colonists came here in search of religious freedom, they...
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Neuroscientist Carl Hart: Everything you think you know about drugs and...
Image: Raw Story Carl Hart grew up in Miami in what he calls the ‘hood, a poor community with high rates of crime and prevalent drug use. He kept a gun in his car, engaged in petty crime and sold...
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In Haiti, Politics And An Earthquake Anniversary Collide
Image: David Gilkey, NPR Monday marks five years since a devastating earthquake struck Haiti, killing more than 200,000 people and destroying much of the Caribbean nation’s capital. It is also the...
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White flight decimated Baltimore businesses long before rioters showed up
The Confirmation Files: Image: Quartz Posted by Libergirl Originally posted on Quartz: On Monday, April 27, the city of Baltimore, Maryland, found itself in the grips of civil unrest. Tension between...
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Freddie Gray ‘died from head injury in police van’
Image: AP Freddie Gray died when his head struck a bolt in a Baltimore police van, a local US TV news station has reported. More from the BBC Posted by Libergirl
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Racially Disparate Views of New Orleans’s Recovery After Hurricane Katrina
As the 10th anniversary approaches of Hurricane Katrina and the catastrophic levee breaches in New Orleans, a new survey finds a stark racial divide in how residents here view the recovery. Nearly four...
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Michigan Senator Marty Knollenberg apologizes for comment about not being...
Sen. Marty Knollenberg, R-Troy, apologized today for comments he made at a legislative committee meeting in which he referred to not being able to make African-American children white. Image: Detroit...
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A “failed policy based on failed research”: The destructive legacy of Bill...
Twenty years ago last week, President Bill Clinton signed a historic welfare reform bill formally known as the Personal Responsibility and Work Opportunity Reconciliation Act. Image: PAUL J....
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New Mexico Outlaws School ‘Lunch Shaming’
What is “lunch shaming?” It happens when a child can’t pay a school lunch bill. In Alabama, a child short on funds was stamped on the arm with “I Need Lunch Money.” In some schools, children are forced...
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NC NAACP leader William Barber stepping down to help national effort on poverty
RALEIGH The Rev. William J. Barber II will step down as head of the state chapter of the NAACP in June, after more than a decade of leadership that has given the civil rights organization a prominent...
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A Riot Started in Newark 50 Years Ago. It Shouldn’t Have Been a Surprise
Image: Time Magazine On Wednesday in Newark, N.J., members of the community will gather at a memorial to 26 citizens of that city. Under an inscription — “We will forever remember the names of those...
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Dick Gregory, who rose from poverty to become a groundbreaking comedian and...
Dick Gregory, who became the first black stand-up comic to break the color barrier in major nightclubs in the early 1960s, a decade in which he satirized segregation and race relations in his act and...
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Stamping Out Hunger…No Stomping on Hunger!!!
I lived in the woods north of Santa Cruz, CA. for part of the summer in 1978. The rest of those five or six months (it was California) I either lived on the beaches north of the town or was on the...
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Brain surgery is no match for running HUD, a frustrated Carson says
Image: Erin Schaff/The New York Times Before Ben Carson accepted President Donald Trump’s offer to become secretary of housing and urban development, a friend implored him to turn down the job to...
View ArticleNeeds go unmet 6 months after Maria hit Puerto Rico
Generators are still humming. Candles are still flickering. Homes are still being repaired. Puerto Rico was hit by Hurricane Maria exactly six months ago, and the U.S. territory is still struggling to...
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Fifty Years On, MLK’s Call for Economic Justice Rings True
Rev. Dr. Martin Luther King Jr. was gunned down fifty years ago today on April 4, 1968. It was a turning point of the twentieth century, marking an ending and a beginning. It was the end of one phase...
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Carson’s New Plan Raises Rent for Millions in Public Housing
Millions of families living in federally subsidized public housing would pay more for rent under a proposal unveiled by Ben Carson Image: Time Magazine Millions of families living in federally...
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Wisconsin is the GOP model for ‘welfare reform.’ But as work requirements...
The Trump administration is using Wisconsin as a model, but hopeful statistics belie the continuing struggles of low-income families trying to meet increasing standards for public assistance. Image:...
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