by MCDC | Mar 31, 2016 | 2016 General Election, Civil Rights, News, Voter Rights
21 States, including Virginia, have new voting restrictions since the 2010 election. None of them are intended to make voting any easier. View this document on...
by MCDC | Mar 31, 2016 | Discrimination, Equal Rights, Income Inequality, Opinion, Racism
Democratic lawmakers drafted civil-rights legislation that would challenge Jim Crow laws in the South while leaving de facto segregation in the North intact. When NBC News asked the civil-rights organizer Bayard Rustin why many African American communities rioted the...
by MCDC | Mar 29, 2016 | Discrimination, Equal Rights, News, Opinion
By Ann Telnaes The North Carolina legislature passes and Gov. Pat McCrory signs a bill which require transgender people to use bathrooms according to the sex on their birth certificates rather than what they identify with.
by MCDC | Mar 28, 2016 | 2016 General Election, Action Alerts, Citizens United, Civil Rights, Equal Rights, Income Inequality, News, Voter Rights
A first-of-its-kind gathering in our nation’s capital is putting We the People back in charge of OUR democracy. Democracy Awakening — organized by Public Citizen, the NAACP, the Communications Workers of America, Greenpeace USA, People For the American Way, the...
by MCDC | Mar 28, 2016 | 2016 General Election, Civil Rights, Discrimination, News, Virginia, Voter Rights
On March 21, the U.S. Supreme Court heard oral argument in Wittman v. Personhuballah about whether Virginia’s 3rd Congressional District, as drawn by the Republican-controlled legislature in 2012, was an unconstitutional racial gerrymander. The disputed map was...
by MCDC | Mar 23, 2016 | 2016 General Election, Health Care, Income Inequality, Issues, Minimum Wage, News, Opinion
Paul Ryan’s penance has not been matched by a broader effort to change the substance beneath the words. Ryan has long been the intellectual torchbearer of a public policy that would immediately hurt the same people he has decided to stop calling “takers.” For...
