by MCDC | Jan 29, 2014 | Civil Rights, History, Income Inequality
For 10 years, Lilly Ledbetter fought to close the gap between women’s and men’s wages, sparring with the Supreme Court, lobbying Capitol Hill in a historic discrimination case against Goodyear Tire and Rubber Company. Ledbetter won a jury verdict of more than $3...
by MCDC | Jan 19, 2014 | Audio, History
“Today we come together, across the country and across the commonwealth, to celebrate the life, contributions, and legacy of Rev. Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr. His tireless efforts on behalf of those denied equal rights and equal protection paved the way for a nation...
by MCDC | Jan 17, 2014 | History, Issues, Video
A conversation with bell hooks and Melissa Harris-Perry about race, black womanhood, politics, media, and love. bell hooks (née Gloria Watkins), scholar-in-residence at The New School, is among the leading public intellectuals of her generation. Her writings cover a...
by MCDC | Jan 8, 2014 | Civil Rights, Employment, History, Minimum Wage, Sequester
BY IGOR VOLSKY It has been 50 years since Lyndon Johnson first declared that the nation could, “for the first time in our history,” conquer and win a war on poverty, pledging a “total commitment by this President, and this Congress, and this nation, to pursue victory...
by MCDC | Jan 4, 2014 | Employment, Ethics, Health Care, History, Issues, Minimum Wage, Sequester, Social Security, Video
extracts from Wikipedia and PoliticsUSA The Second Bill of Rights was a list of rights proposed by Franklin D. Roosevelt during his State of the Union Address on January 11, 1944. In his address Roosevelt suggested that the nation had come to recognize, and should...
