2015/10/5-“A young black man, Henry Dumas, went through a turnstile at a New York City subway station,” reads an invitation by Toni Morrison for a posthumous book-launch party she threw for Dumas in 1974, six years after he died. “A …..
2015/10/5-Growing up during the crack era in East Baltimore, author D. Watkins saw firsthand how the drug destroyed communities. “It trashed my neighborhood,” Watkins tellsFresh Air‘s Terry Gross. “I’m old enough to remember before crack really hit, and once it …..
2015/9/11-Aubrey Lynch looked around his college campus a year ago and saw something; or rather he didn’t see something. “I don’t see many Hispanics here,” he admitted. “I’m sure there are some, but I haven’t seen them, and I thought …..
2015/9/22-Mississippi House Speaker Phillip Gunn sent a strong message to voters who will not vote Republican. The message: You’re Out. “When it comes to leadership positions (in the Mississippi Legislature), who do we pick? We’ll be picking people who share …..
Mississippi Lt. Gov. Tate Reeves and House Speaker Phillip Gunn are refusing to release e-mails that could prove they’ve been illegally colluding with anti-education lobbyists and policy-makers to undermine K-12 funding. “We wanted to know what e-mails had gone out …..
