by MCDC | Mar 14, 2015 | Events, History, News
Republicans in the mold of Roger B. Taney
by MCDC | Mar 8, 2015 | Civil Rights, Discrimination, Events, History, News, Racism, Voter Rights
Civil rights leaders Hosea Williams (wearing a suit) and John Lewis (on the ground) led the march on that Sunday afternoon. Lewis, who has been a congressman from Georgia since being elected in 1986, was badly injured in Selma, suffering a fractured skull after being...
by MCDC | Feb 26, 2015 | 2016 General Election, Discrimination, Education, History
Thomas Jefferson knew that education is vital to a functioning Democratic Republic. Conservatives have other ideas THOM HARTMANN, ALTERNET Sure, the war on education helps Republican lawmakers destroy unions and slash government spending, but it’s our history of...
by MCDC | Jan 19, 2015 | History
SCOTT KAUFMAN As the country celebrates the holiday in his honor, you will likely see the same quotations from Martin Luther King Jr.’s famous “I Have a Dream” speech shared again and again. To combat the scrubbed and sanitized version of the Civil Rights leader that...
by MCDC | Jan 19, 2015 | History, Issues
On February 12, 1968—President Lincoln’s birthday—as Dr. King traveled from state to state, garnering rousing support for the Poor People’s Campaign, more than a thousand sanitation workers in Memphis walked off the job. A month into the strike, on March...
