“WITHOUT A GUN HOW MANY LIVES WOULD HAVE BEEN SAVED?”
When news broke of the murders at the Sikh Temple of Wisconsin on August 5th, people of all faiths and backgrounds and the first responders [...]
Read MoreWhen news broke of the murders at the Sikh Temple of Wisconsin on August 5th, people of all faiths and backgrounds and the first responders [...]
Read MoreRight before the U.S. House of Representatives left for the summer to go home to campaign for your vote, they voted to extend the Bush [...]
Read MoreSupreme Court Justice Louis Brandeis once said “We can have democracy in this country, or we can have great wealth concentrated in the hands [...]
Read MoreOn July 24th, Dr. Ben Bernanke, Chairman of the Board of Governors of the Federal Reserve System, gave a video keynote speech to 3,200 community and youth [...]
Read MoreIn 1642 the Massachusetts General Court passed one of the very first laws about education in what would become the United States. It ruled that [...]
Read More“The first fact that we need to understand is that America has a longer history of disenfranchisement than it does of enfranchisement. What do I [...]
Read MoreA Black boy born in 2001 has a one in three chance of going to prison in his lifetime and a Latino boy a one [...]
Read MoreOn June 25th, the U.S. Supreme Court in Miller v. Alabama banned mandatory sentences of life in prison without parole for juveniles. This is a major victory [...]
Read MoreI had the recent privilege of attending the annual dinner of the Leadership Conference on Civil and Human Rights honoring Congressman Barney Frank and National [...]
Read MoreOn June 16th, the National Underground Railroad Freedom Center in Cincinnati, Ohio is hosting a Juneteenth celebration commemorating the jubilant day in 1865 when the [...]
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