by MCDC | Apr 4, 2016 | Discrimination, Immigration Reform, Issues, News, Virginia
Both bills were stripped down during the legislative process. In his veto message McAuliffe said they were “stoking irrational fears” and that debate on the bills was “intended to communicate a sense that non-citizens are to be feared and should be...
by MCDC | Mar 31, 2016 | Discrimination, Equal Rights, Income Inequality, Opinion, Racism
Democratic lawmakers drafted civil-rights legislation that would challenge Jim Crow laws in the South while leaving de facto segregation in the North intact. When NBC News asked the civil-rights organizer Bayard Rustin why many African American communities rioted the...
by MCDC | Mar 29, 2016 | Discrimination, Equal Rights, News, Opinion
By Ann Telnaes The North Carolina legislature passes and Gov. Pat McCrory signs a bill which require transgender people to use bathrooms according to the sex on their birth certificates rather than what they identify with.
by MCDC | Mar 28, 2016 | 2016 General Election, Civil Rights, Discrimination, News, Virginia, Voter Rights
On March 21, the U.S. Supreme Court heard oral argument in Wittman v. Personhuballah about whether Virginia’s 3rd Congressional District, as drawn by the Republican-controlled legislature in 2012, was an unconstitutional racial gerrymander. The disputed map was...
by MCDC | Mar 23, 2016 | 2016 General Election, Discrimination, Opinion
By Ann Telnaes
