The U.S. Senate will hold hearings this week on the nomination of Judge Neil Gorsuch to the U.S. Supreme Court. Since the nomination of Robert Bork in the 1980’s and the ensuing turbulent hearing for him, Republicans have tended to nominate a very conservative judge who had not produced a paper trail exposing his … [Read more…]
Recent television clips have shown a woman exclaiming that without the Affordable Care Act (ACA) some members of her family would be dead. Such tragedies are certainly possible because ACA has saved lives. Before ACA, according to various studies, between 20,000 and 45,000 Americans died each year due to a lack of health insurance. During … [Read more…]
Following is the url for an article published yesterday in the Richmond Times-Dispatch. http://www.richmond.com/opinion/their-opinion/guest-columnists/wornie-reed-column-what-s-inspired-african-american-youth-in/article_2223e1b2-d976-5b14-9974-6c04fe87ed6b.html
The exploits of the black female mathematicians, the “human computers,” detailed in the book, “Hidden Figures,” and the movie with the same name are truly astounding. For many African Americans of a certain age, however, the astonishing thing is not that they could do such amazing things, but that they would be given the opportunity. … [Read more…]
From a friend – with an update below from me. Bannon’s seizure of power at highest levels. What is unfolding inside Washington right now is, for all intents and purposes, a step-by-step coup e’tat against constitutional government. Steve Bannon has played, and will continue to play, the leading role in this usurpation — his positions … [Read more…]
See following story: http://www.theroot.com/woman-who-caused-emmett-tills-death-admits-to-lying-1791698393?utm_source=theroot_newsletter&utm_medium=email&utm_campaign=2017-01-27
Two decades after his assassination, Martin Luther King, Jr., was highly regarded. His favorability rating was 76% among white Americans. By then, of course, we had the national holiday established in his name, quite a change from 1966, two years before his death, when his favorability rating among white Americans was only 28%. We should remember that … [Read more…]
Let us remember the real Martin Luther King, Jr., not the one often talked about today. All too often he is remembered as a man of peace, as if he was a peace maker, a person seeking to avoid conflict and pushing others to do the same. Unfortunately, MLK is widely known and referred to … [Read more…]
Let us all join the move to push Congress to reject Jeff Sessions. Over 1200 law professors from nearly 200 law schools wrote an open letter to the Senate Judiciary Committee to reject Sen. Jeff Sessions as U.S. Attorney General, citing among other things, Sessions’ career long racist actions. At the end of this piece, … [Read more…]
Well, the majority of the 538 electors, the members of the antiquated Electoral College, have cast their votes for Donald Trump as the next U.S. President. Of course, the existence of this institution is inconsistent with the current meaning of democratic elections, where the candidate who gets the most votes wins. In recent years, we … [Read more…]