Donald Trump Is Out. Are We Ready to Talk About How He Got In?
Trump calls for peace after rioters overrun US Capitol – Washington, DC USA – 1/7/2021 (Shutterstock)
By Te-Nihisi Coates, The Atlantic
I’ve been thinking …
Dreams, Love & Hope – A New Dawn
Amanda Gorman, 22, who delivered the inauguration poem, “The Hill We Climb,” said: ” If we merge mercy with might, and might with right, …
Census decision deals blow to Trump efforts on House seats
Census 2020 meeting with Federal Census Bureau Director Dr. Steven Dillingham at the Broward County Government Center East with Commissioner Barbara Sharief – Fort …
The Nursing Home Didn’t Send Her to the Hospital, and She Died
Palestine Howze didn’t have COVID-19, but a law enacted to protect health providers during the pandemic could derail her family’s wrongful death suit.
By Sean Campbell, ProPublica
In early April, before COVID-19 hit her state hard, Palestine Howze was in a Durham, North Carolina, nursing home, living …
Don’t tell me you love me, show me you love me.
2021 is the year of reckoning. As we celebrate MLK, let’s remember this quote: “Our lives begin to end the day we become silent …
Why Trump’s challenges to democracy will be a big problem for Biden
Trump Supporters Siege Capitol Building: Men looking out on Capitol Hill after successful Siege of the Capitol. – Capitol Hill, Washington D.C. USA – …
Lisa Montgomery: US executes only woman on federal death row
By BBC
Lisa Montgomery – the only female inmate on federal death row in the US – has been executed for murder.
She received
President-elect Biden, delete your account (really)
President-elect Joe Biden’s twitter field on January 11, 2021. (Twitter)
By Robert Carroll, NY Daily News
President-elect Biden, on Jan. 20, you have the …
The United States Still Hasn’t Ratified the Disability Rights Treaty
At the 43rd Annual Rutherford Labor Day Street Fair, a young woman carries a sign that says, “Disabled Citizens Are People Too!” – Rutherford, …
Legalizing marijuana, once a pipe dream on Capitol Hill, takes an important step forward
Protesters rally in support of the legalization of marijuana in front of The White House in Washington DC on April 2, 2016 (Shutterstock)
By …