
After 20 nationally televised, occasionally entertaining, sometimes appalling debates, our presidential candidates this cycle have discussed a number of important issues: immigration policy, gun safety, health care, taxes, U.S. involvement in the Middle East, and the mounting crisis of student debt, just to name a few.
Some of you may remember the Kerner Commission, but many younger members of our audience probably will not. The Kerner Report should be required reading for policymakers and anyone trying to understand how we got to where we are now in terms of the black experience in America, the history of the ghetto and government’s responsibility to its citizens.
Fear of Ebola has been climbing steadily in the United States since Tuesday's announcement that a Liberian traveler in Dallas, Thomas Eric Duncan, was diagnosed with the disease after having been in Texas for eight days. A month ago, a Harvard School of Public Health poll found that 39 percent of Americans thought an Ebola outbreak would come to the United States, and 26 percent felt concerned that they or a member of their family would get the disease.
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Since an Alabama mine worker first alerted Colonial Pipeline officials to a massive rupture, more than a quarter million gallons…
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Former Secretary of State John Kerry, author of Every Day is Extra, predicted that “lives will be lost” due to… Read More
Announcement at climate summit comes after former US secretary of state John Kerry warns that international action is slowing Read More
While celebrating the win, activists noted that "construction of the Bayou Bridge Pipeline continues in other parts of the Atchafalaya… Read More
Though water protectors have held their ground at Standing Rock against the Dakota Access pipeline for months now, they need… Read More
West Virginia property owners won an important case at the West Virginia Supreme Court of Appeals on Tuesday when that… Read More
Fifteen of the sixteen hottest years ever recorded have occurred during this new century, and the near-unanimous scientific consensus attributes… Read More
Since an Alabama mine worker first alerted Colonial Pipeline officials to a massive rupture, more than a quarter million gallons… Read More
This year’s massive buildup of resistance to the Dakota Access pipeline follows closely on the heels of the victory over… Read More
Last weekend in Orlando the platform committee of the Democratic Party added language into their platform acknowledging the official position… Read More