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 …..
It was Sunday and the first warnings to evacuate had already come down. Katrina was going to make landfall. Most people on the coast were still debating whether to evacuate or ride the storm out and with the two previous …..
