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In Tulsa, Oklahoma, a white riot in 1921 killed as many as 300 Blacks and left homeless thousands more. For decades, this history was buried, but in recent years the details of the event have resurfaced. Now, the mayor has ordered a search for mass graves.
Students from more than 30 law schools began a series of walkouts yesterday afternoon to protest the US Senate’s confirmation of Brett Kavanaugh as a Supreme Court justice. They wore black in support of all survivors of sexual assault or abuse.
This is one of the most interesting projects to come out of the new news environment lately, because these women intend to check facts through publicly interrogating the embedded narratives used by news outlets.
The algorithm that the USDA uses to detect fraud among SNAP vendors can’t distinguish between fraud and common practices like shopping on credit in poor communities. As those vendors get barred from SNAP, neighborhoods are losing their corner groceries to an imperfect system.
Hold a special meeting of your nonprofit board to lay some quick plans about encouraging your stakeholders to make it to the polls and get out there and help. And, to be clear, you are of course allowed by law to do so.
The NRA, broke as they are reported to be, spent a good deal on a pro-Kavanaugh campaign ad featuring Oliver North speaking over “clips of Democrats doctored to look like fuzzy newsreels from a guerrilla republic.”
A study by internationally preeminent scientists finds that time is running out to dial back climate change. Estimated costs from a rise in global temperatures of a half-degree Celsius alone are $54 trillion—three times the current annual US gross domestic product.
The “angry mob” is well-tested rhetoric, and if you don’t recognize yourself in it…well, that’s on you. Maybe it’s time we started to claim it and use it to our own ends.
A growing number of US states and cities celebrate Indigenous People’s Day to honor the original inhabitants of our land. But the United States did not celebrate Columbus Day as a federal holiday until 1937. The story behind it is worth a look.
What is behind the massive increase in student loan debt? One major driver is declining state support for higher education.
