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Hispanic Caucus Meets with Boehner as GOP Continues Criticism of Immigration Bill
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Pastor Maina Mwaura: Julian Bond Preaches Intolerance Towards the Religious
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850 Laid Off from Chicago School System, 3,783 in Philly: But $500 Million for Prisons
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Rep. Gutierrez Warns GOP on Immigration: “Step Away from the Fear-Mongering”
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Hispanic Caucus Meets with Boehner as GOP Continues Criticism of Immigration Bill
Today the Congressional Hispanic Caucus (CHC) met with Speaker John Boehner to discuss immigration reform. On Tuesday, Speaker Boehner was publicly saying that he would not bring an immigration bill forward that did not have th...
Pastor Maina Mwaura: Julian Bond Preaches Intolerance Towards the Religious
By Pastor Maina Mwaura In an op-ed written this week in Politic365.com titled “Religious liberty and inclusion,” Julian Bond proved, once again, that he and the NAACPare slowly becoming an irrelevant organization ...
Celebrating Juneteenth by William Reed
By William Reed for the Washington Informer Did you know that the official African-American holidays are: Kwanzaa, Martin Luther King Jr. Day and Juneteenth? What do you, and your family, do to celebrate Juneteenth? Also known...
D.C: Spingarn’s Last Graduating Class
By Dorothy Rowley for the Washington Informer When the last diploma was awarded to Spingarn Senior High School’s class of 2013 on Thursday, the moment symbolized the end of a major chapter in the District’s histor...
850 Laid Off from Chicago School System, 3,783 in Philly: But $500 Million for Prisons
Build a Prison Close a School: 54 schools closed in Chicago (88% black), 23 closed in Philadelphia (81% black), 26 in New York (60% black). What’s the difference between the Democrats and Republicans again I ...
Rep. Gutierrez Warns GOP on Immigration: “Step Away from the Fear-Mongering”
This morning Congressman Gutierrez (D – Illinois) made a speech on the House floor warning the Republicans to “come to their senses” on immigration reform. This comes the same day that Speaker Boehner has indi...
House GOP Starts Work on Immigration, Rep. Luis Gutierrez Talks on Status
he immigration bill ht one of its first obvious bumps in the road today as House Republicans, led by Rep. Trey Gowdy (R-SC) began to discuss a decidedly punitive set of amendments to the bill. Everyone involved in the immigrati...
Human Rights Watch Asks Over-Criminalization Task Force to Look at Fed Sentencing
Human Rights Watch sent the following letter to members of the U.S. Congress, regarding the scope of the new Congressional Over-Criminalization Task Force. The Honorable James Sensenbrenner Committee on the Judiciary US House o...
Julian Bond: Religious Liberty and Inclusion
By Julian Bond By the mid-1960s, the civil rights movement had made significant cultural, legal and political progress in advancing the cause of racial justice and equality under the law – a struggle that continues to thi...
Arizona Voter ID Struck Down, Victory for Voting Rights
On Monday, the Supreme Court struck down an Arizona law that required proof of citizenship to register to vote. In a 7-2 decision on Arizona v. Inter Tribal Council, the Court determined that the state has to “accept and ...
300 Person March to Pressure Obama Led by Daniels, Gets Lift by Rev. Jesse Jackson
he group was not all that large: 300 people. But the march may be noteworthy because, as far as anyone can remember, it is the first march by Black folks that seeks to demand action from the first black President: President...
The Urgency of Now for the Unemployed
By William Spriggs, AFL-CIO The U.S. Bureau of Labor Statistics reported that the unemployment rate increased slightly from 7.5% to 7.6% in May. Each month, comments on this number include a discussion on “labor force partic...
Obama Administration Touts Its Contributions to Broadband Deployment
Proclaiming the last four years as a period of tremendous growth in broadband deployment, President Obama released last Friday a report that showcases the Administration’s contribution to broadband deployment and discusses op...
Puerto Rico’s Supreme Court Gains New Rival: Governor Garcia Padilla
Puerto Rico’s ruling party, the Popular Democratic Party, lost little time in delivering a first strike against the opposition party dominated Supreme Court when it enacted Act 18 of 2013, aimed at limiting the Puerto Ric...
Rev. Jackson to Join Protest + “Demand Direct Action” from Obama on Jobs/Drug Policy
Interesting… A rally here (see release at bottom) that went from being a relatively quiet affair has now landed a big name speaker. That would be Rev. Jesse Jackson, Sr. Rev. Jackson will be the “main&...
My Father and the German Engineer
By Dr. Jill Klein At 85, my father is full of optimism and humor. You would never guess that at the age of sixteen he was a victim of the greatest atrocity of the 20th century. In the spring of 1944, he and his family were sent...
President Obama’s Insecure National Security State
“They who can give up essential liberty to obtain a little temporary safety, deserve neither liberty nor safety.” Benjamin Franklin Last week The Guardian newspaper confirmed what many Americans have suspected for a very ...
Moral Mondays: A Model Grassroots Movement
By Ben Jealous, President, NAACP On April 29, seventeen dedicated activists were arrested for civil disobedience at the North Carolina General Assembly as they protested attacks on education, health care, voting rights and the ...
Jobs Are Not the Answer
The current unemployment rate of 7.5% percent means close to 20 million Americans remain unemployed or underemployed.
Nobody states the obvious truth: that the marketplace has changed and there will never again be enough jobs ...
Dem Senator “Upset” with Obama: Blacks Better Keep an Eye on Student Loan Situation
“I’ve got to tell you, I’m very upset with President Obama and the Republicans,” Sen. Tom Harkin (D-IA) said yesterday. “This is the first president since 1958, since this came into being, that has...
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