Tag: civil rights
Right-wing SCOTUS majority signals support for anti-LGBTQ+ reactionaries
"It does not bode well for the future of civil rights law that Gorsuch believes a state imposes 'reeducation training' on employers when it reminds them how to comply with nondiscrimination rules," said one court observer.
Iran: A winter-spring anti-romance
To achieve a more orderly and just transition in Iran, a ceasefire is needed in the winter-spring standoff between the revolutionary generation of 1979 and the revolutionary generation of today.
EPA calls out environmental racism in Louisiana’s Cancer Alley
The Environmental Protection Agency said in a letter it sent last week to state regulators in response to civil rights complaints about air pollution in the region known as Cancer Alley.
MLK Day special: Dr. Martin Luther King Jr. in his own...
While Dr. King is primarily remembered as a civil rights leader, he also championed the cause of the poor and organized the Poor People’s Campaign to address issues of economic justice.
How the Vietnam War pushed MLK to embrace global justice, not...
On July 2, 1964, Martin Luther King Jr. stood behind President Lyndon Baines Johnson as the Texan signed into law the Civil...
Derek Chauvin pleads guilty to violating civil rights of George Floyd...
“This is important and historic. His admissions mark another important moment of accountability and another step on the road to justice.”
How Civil Rights Leader Bob Moses used math literacy to push...
The Algebra Project is a nonprofit dedicated to helping students from historically marginalized communities develop math literacy.
Civil rights hero John Lewis remembered at funeral as ‘patriot who...
“a true American patriot who risked his life and bled for the hope and promise of democracy.”
Bipartisan political leaders pay tribute to Rep. John Lewis
Both Republican and Democratic leaders have joined together in paying homage to the late Rep. John Lewis.
Former VA doctor indicted on multiple civil rights charges
If convicted, Dr. Jonathan Yates faces a statutory maximum sentence of life in prison.
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Elected Democrats are conformist enablers of Biden for 2024
Alarm bells among pro-Biden pundits have finally begun to break the political sound barrier. So why is it quiet on Capitol Hill on the Democratic front?
Missouri set to execute Marcellus Williams despite DNA evidence proving innocence—again
Unless we reform this corrupt system, racist politicians will be rewarded with higher political offices–for–”frying a black man.”
How ideology can help (or hurt) movements trying to build power
Political educator Harmony Goldberg discusses whether the ideological traditions of the left are helpful for practical organizing.
Research expedition discovers extensive emissions of methane from bottom of Baltic Sea
The research project aimed "to expand knowledge about methane and its sources and sinks in the oxygen-free environments in the deeper parts of the Baltic Sea."
Climate campaigners decry ‘absolutely horrendous’ brutality against protesters at fed summit
"We have no choice but to take direct action to put our bodies on the line because petitions, sign-waving, and chanting—we tried that for the past 50 years and it hasn't worked, and we're out of time," said one arrested activist.