by MCDC | Aug 16, 2015 | Civil Rights, History, News
It is with great sadness that we announce the passing of legendary civil rights activist Julian Bond. From his days as the co-founder and communications director of the Student Nonviolent Coordinating Committee in the 1960s to his chairmanship of the NAACP in the 21st...
by MCDC | Aug 12, 2015 | 2016 General Election, Action Alerts, Civil Rights, Discrimination, Equal Rights, History, News, Racism, Voter Rights
Fifty years ago, the Voting Rights Act outlawed literacy tests and other measures that had prevented African-Americans from voting. After its passage, Congress amended the act four times to increase its scope. But in 2013, a Supreme Court decision blocked the...
by MCDC | Aug 11, 2015 | Civil Rights, Discrimination, Equal Rights, History, Racism, Video
What caused the Civil War? Did the North care about abolishing slavery? Did the South secede because of slavery? Or was it about something else entirely…perhaps states’ rights? Colonel Ty Seidule, Professor of History at the United States Military Academy...
by MCDC | Jun 10, 2015 | 2016 General Election, History
by MCDC | Mar 17, 2015 | Events, History, News
Congressional #Republicans who are trying to blow up US-European diplomacy with Iran would desperately like Americans to believe that they have some alternative besides war to the administration’s multilateral efforts to reach a diplomatic agreement with Iran....
by MCDC | Mar 15, 2015 | Civil Rights, Discrimination, History, Racism, Video
Fifty years ago, on March 7, 1965, civil rights activists, demonstrating for voting rights, were savagely attacked by Alabama state troopers and vigilantes as they tried to cross the Edmund Pettus Bridge. That day became known as “Bloody Sunday.” That night, ABC News...
