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 | 2016 General Election, Action Alerts, Civil Rights, Equal Rights, Racism
This election isn’t as important as Black Lives Matter. You either agree that black people are in a state of emergency and you pitch in or you don’t and you are part of the problem. But, if progressives continue to throw a tantrum over Black Lives Matter disrupting a...
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 | Jul 31, 2015 | Action Alerts, Civil Rights, Discrimination, Equal Rights, Racism, Video
Columbia University professor and Roosevelt Institute’s Dorian Warren, Rinku Sen from ColorLines.com, co-President of GlobalGrind.com Michael Skolnik, and Dave Zirin, sports editor for The Nation, join Melissa Harris-Perry for a discussion on how to be a good ally....
