I saw the movie Oppenheimer recently, and it reminded me that African American scientists worked on that project to build the atomic bomb, and I knew two of them. This project, called the Manhattan Project, operated at several locations across the country, working on different parts of the project. Most African Americans worked in the … [Read more…]
Martin Luther King is often misremembered–so much that we celebrate fictional pablum, not the real MLK. Politicians and others who oppose the socio-political arguments of Bernie Sanders are essentially opposing Martin Luther King. Senator Bernie Sanders, probably the best known democratic socialist today, is really being true to the legacy of MLK. At the time … [Read more…]
President Biden can run on his record as well as against Trump and the Republicans’ authoritarianism. The economy has done quite well during his years in office. Biden’s presence boosted the economy. For example, the Bureau of Labor Statistics reported in December that the U.S. economy added 199,000 jobs in November of 2023, and the … [Read more…]