Khalid’s Corner: More Guns = Less Safety
Do you want to know what will make kids safe in schools? Keep ALL guns out the schools....
22
Mar
06
Mar
Immigrant Rights Activist See Turning Point For All Americans
Warning that the country is heading down a white nationalist, nativist path, four immigrant rights advocates issued a call to action just hours before the U.S. Senate rejected all four...
26
Feb
Yes, We’re Talking About Gun Violence Again
The United States is talking about gun control again. Social media is flooded with opinions from people who own guns, people who detest them, and people who have survived their...
24
Dec
Trump’s Dark Deregulation
Passing legislation and rolling back regulatory rules are hard. There are quieter, easier ways to cut down on governmental oversight. Here are five ways the Trump administration is doing so....
25
Aug
With the Census in Peril, What Will It Take to ‘Right the Ship?’
Advocates, while fearing the worst, say there's still time for Congress and the Trump administration to turn things around -- but the window is "closing fast."...
16
Aug
New Head of Leadership Conference Says Now a “Bleak Time” for Civil Rights
"Nothing Like a Crisis to Sharpen One�s Thinking" -- a profile of new CEO of Leadership Council on Human Rights, Vanita Gupta....
13
Aug
Police Stood By As Mayhem Mounted in Charlottesville
State police and National Guardsmen watched passively for hours as self-proclaimed Nazis engaged in street battles with counter-protesters. ProPublica reporter A.C. Thompson was on the scene and reports that the...
23
Jun
More Than 100 Federal Agencies Fail to Report Hate Crimes to the FBI’s National Database
The FBI has identified at least 120 federal agencies that aren't uploading information to the database in violation of a longstanding legal mandate....
21
Jun
GOP Health Bill—How We Got Into This Mess
Amid the scoreboard coverage of the GOP health bill, historians remind us of how the unique U.S. system became such an insurance-based mess....
16
May
Outside Washington, A ‘More Powerful’ Immigrant Rights Movement Emerges
Despite the cloud of fear hanging over immigrant communities, there is a growing and increasingly organized resistance....
17
Apr
UA3411: On Being a Randomly Picked Asian
A video surfaced of a Vietnamese American, David Dao, being forcefully dragged from a United Airlines flight departing Chicago for Louisville, Kentucky. Dao, 69, had allegedly refused to voluntarily give...
31
Mar
Richmond Challenges White House Threat to Defund Sanctuary Cities
The City of Richmond has filed a federal lawsuit against President Donald Trump challenging an executive order that would deny federal funding to sanctuary cities....
13
Feb
Backlash Against Muslim Ban Offers Hope, But Immigrants Still Vulnerable
The same week the Ninth Circuit decision was announced in San Francisco, ICE arrested approximately 160 people in Southern California....
08
Feb
Ending DACA Would Leave Hole in Economy, Study Says
Studies show that Pres. Trump's ending the DACA exemption for young undocumented Dreamers would cost the U.S. economically....
03
Feb
Trump’s Definition of Deportable ‘Broad’ and ‘Vague’
Under the expanded definition, nearly any undocumented immigrant could be considered a target....
