Universal health care will be on the Colorado ballot in 2016
A plan to allow Colorado to opt out of the Affordable Care Act and replace it with universal health care will be on the Colorado ballot in 2016.Supporters of universal health care attained over 158,000...
View ArticleTreating Postpartum Depression -- NY First Lady McCray
First Lady McCray Remarks as Prepared for Delivery By New York City First Leader Chirlane McCray.We are all grateful to Bellevue and NYC Health and Hospitals for hosting us. I cannot think of a better...
View ArticleAnalyzing The Paris Terror Attacks In Context Of Western Policy
President HollandeAs we mourn the many killed in Paris by the terror attacks of November 13, we may be tempted to react mainly with anger and outrage and to rally around the Western governments in...
View ArticleRight Wing Backlash Can't Stop Anti-Racism Student Movement
Mizzou Power -- BlackLivesMatterAs a first-year student at Brown University, twenty-five years ago, I was detained by campus security for trespassing. In my own dorm. In sock feet.You see, I'd left my...
View ArticleGen. Sejusa, Former Aide, Doubts Military Would Sustain Museveni Regime
Dictator Museveni practising-- in case election doesn't go his wayGeneral Sejusa, the Chairman of Free Uganda (FU) and National Coordinator of Platform to Rescue Uganda (PRU) knows the mind of Dictator...
View ArticleBarbara Arnwine Champions Democracy By Defending Voting Rights For All
Barbara Arnwine [Commentary]Barbara Arnwine has long been sounding the alarm about twenty-first century efforts to turn back the clock on voting rights. These are are some of her observations: “What we...
View ArticleScreening Today: Tom Surgal's New Film "FIRE MUSIC" Documents Fifty Year...
Tom Surgal with Ornette Coleman Although marginalized for over fifty years, the Jazz movement known as "free jazz" still thrives around the world within it's own subculture. Tonight at Arts For Art...
View ArticleStudents Occupy Princeton President's Office In Protest
The students at the president's officeAbout a dozen students have occupied the offices of the University president Christopher L. Eisgruber at Princeton to demand that Woodrow Wilson's name be removed...
View ArticleRight Wing Use Syrian Crises For Anti-Immigration Fearmongering
Gary Herbert Both chambers of Congress are hurtling towards votes on legislation designed to halt the resettlement of refugees...
View ArticleMedia: Colorlines Launches Revamped Website
Colorlines, the award-winning daily news site published by racial justice organization Race Forward, announced the redesign of its website, Colorlines.com. Changes include cleaner design, simpler...
View ArticleUganda Elections: Candidates Battle For Votes In North, Long-Neglected By...
Dr. Besigye addresses supporters[Africa: Uganda Election 2016]Ugandan ruler of 30 years Gen. Yoweri Museveni now claims it's the opposition candidates running against him who plan to rig the 2016...
View ArticleActivists Call Bratton "Dictatorial" For Opposing Police Reform Bill
Commissioner Bratton excoriated on opposition to police reform legistaltion in City CouncilIn response to comments NYPD Commissioner Bill Bratton made at a Harvard Club breakfast November 17,...
View ArticleISIS With Paris Attacks Adopts Al-Qaeda Strategy Says Middle East Journalist
French security agents conducted raid searching for ISIS after the attack AMY GOODMAN: France and Russia have staged a series of new airstrikes on the Syrian city of Raqqa, the de facto capital of the...
View ArticleOne Year Anniversary of NYPD Killing of Akai Gurley-- Family To Meet DA...
Akai GurleyFriday, November 20, 2015 marks one year since 28-year-old Akai Gurley was shot and killed by NYPD Officer Peter Liang while he and his partner, Officer Shaun Landau, patrolled the NYCHA...
View ArticleICC READY TO PROSECUTE UGANDAN ARMY OFFICERS; ALSO NEW CHARGES AGAINST LRA’S...
Phakiso Mochochoko addressing the media in Gulu: “ICC ready to prosecute Ugandan army if there is evidence”.A senior official of The Hague based International Criminal Court (ICC), has said his court...
View Article"Dirty Words"
With no further ado, please allow me to share with you these words of reflection and wisdom I heard at Holy Eucharist last night. See if they resonate with you. “I want to talk to you this evening...
View ArticleMeet The 88 Democrats Who Just Voted To Enable Racial Discrimination In Car...
Debbie Wasserman Schultz They were joined by 244 Republicans This week, the House of Representatives voted to help banks and car dealerships discriminate against customers of color. And it wasn't just...
View Article#BlackLivesMatter: We Need More Serpicos To Help End Corrupt Police Culture
Frank Serpico[Speaking Truth To Power]In late 1971, Detective Frank Serpico tried to change the corrupt cop culture of the New York Police Department (NYPD) when he testified before the Knapp...
View ArticleTaking Action on College Racial Harassment
Arne DuncanIn recent weeks, incidents at the University of Missouri and Yale University have placed in the public eye a set of issues that are familiar and painful to far too many college...
View Article"Success"? Predatory Education And Subprime Schools
Fatima Geidy, the parent of a child formerly enrolled in Success Academies[Op-Ed]As alluded to in a recent DailyNews editorial there is, indeed, a wind blowing against New York’s charter school...
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