by MCDC | Jul 22, 2016 | 2016 General Election, Citizens United, Civil Rights, Climate Change, Economy, Education, Employment, Energy, Environment, Equal Rights, Ethics, Events, Gun Reform, Health Care, Immigration Reform, Income Inequality, Issues, Minimum Wage, News, Racism, Social Security, Voter Rights
In 2016, Democrats meet in Philadelphia with the same basic belief that animated the Continental Congress when they gathered here 240 years ago: Out of many, we are one. Under President Obama’s leadership, and thanks to the hard work and determination of the American...
by MCDC | Jun 23, 2016 | Civil Rights, Equal Rights, Gun Reform, News
At the height of the civil rights movement, before he could even dream of becoming a congressman from Georgia, Lewis trekked cross-country as one of the original 13 Freedom Riders. He was chairman of the Student Nonviolent Coordinating Committee. In Alabama, he...
by MCDC | Jun 22, 2016 | 2016 General Election, Action Alerts, Civil Rights, Discrimination, Equal Rights, Voter Rights
Three years ago this week — on June 25, 2013 — the U.S. Supreme Court in its Shelby County v. Holder decision gutted the Voting Rights Act (VRA), a civil rights law signed by President Lyndon Johnson in 1965 to ban racial discrimination in voting. Within minutes of...
by MCDC | May 29, 2016 | Civil Rights, Discrimination, Equal Rights, News
It’s no laughing matter. Just this week, a Utah father said he got into an altercation with another man in a Walmart bathroom over the weekend after bringing his son and his daughter into the men’s restroom with him. Chris Adams told Fox 13 Now Wednesday that he...
by MCDC | May 1, 2016 | Civil Rights, Equal Rights, History, Income Inequality
Martin Luther King, Jr to César Chávez “As brothers in the fight for equality, I extend the hand of fellowship and good will and wish continuing success to you and your members. The fight for equality must be fought on many fronts–in the urban slums, in the sweat...
by MCDC | Apr 27, 2016 | Action Alerts, Civil Rights, News, Virginia
Governor McAuliffe’s April 22 order restores the rights to all individuals who, as of April 22, 2016, have completed the terms of incarceration and have completed any period of supervised release (probation or parole) for any and all felony convictions. Going forward,...
