October 17, 2016 – Federal judges all over the nation have caught on to GOP efforts to restrict minority voting. Legislators in Michigan, North Carolina, Texas, and Mississippi, among other states, immediately rammed through laws imposing new voting restrictions after …..
October 17, 2016 – With a sobering new report predicting two more centuries of race-based wealth disparity for the U.S., it may be time for the nation to finally acknowledge that lingering, legal segregation is the most obvious culprit. The …..
October 17, 2016 – The nation is divided and angry, and a new Institute for Policy Studies report suggests why. It’s not just that the Great Recession of 2008 hit poor families extra hard, or that the mild recovery that …..
August 17, 2016 – The NAACP unveiled strong new resolutions at its national convention in Cincinnati. One of its loudest was a demand for a nationwide halt on new charter schools. The NAACP has been opposed to charter schools for …..
2016/04/08 – The city of Jackson is getting old and like a senior citizen with a lifetime of heavy smoking and alcohol abuse, it’s facing expensive age-related illnesses. The most obvious, outside of the numerous car-eating-size potholes found in some areas, …..
