by MCDC | Mar 26, 2017 | Civil Rights, Racism
When Labor Fought for Civil Rights The Rise and Fall of the New Deal Order—memorialized in the classic anthology of that title edited by Gary Gerstle and Steve Fraser in 1989—might be history, but it never gets old. Eighty-plus years after FDR was inaugurated, the New...
by MCDC | Feb 18, 2017 | 2017 General Election, 2018 General Election, Discrimination, News, Racism, Voter Rights
A Republican-dominated general assembly is churning out laws that target the state’s new minorities http://www.economist.com/blogs/democracyinamerica/2017/02/fruits-gerrymandering A Republican-dominated General Assembly is churning out legislation targeting the...
by MCDC | Feb 14, 2017 | Discrimination, News, Racism, Virginia
A federal judge in Alexandria has issued a preliminary injunction against President Trump’s travel ban, dealing another blow to the White House attempt to bar residents of seven predominantly Muslim countries from entering the United States. The executive order, Judge...
by MCDC | Jan 27, 2017 | Immigration Reform, News, Racism
On International Holocaust Remembrance Day, it’s important to remember why America welcomes refugees. Desperate people, fleeing a terrifying, bloodthirsty regime, try to find refuge in the US. But the American government and the public don’t want to accept them....
by MCDC | Jan 13, 2017 | 2016 General Election, Action Alerts, Civil Rights, Discrimination, Equal Rights, History, News, Racism, Video
The lost letter from Martin Luther King, Jr.’s widow opposing Jeff Sessions for a federal judgeship in 1986 has been found, and it’s a doozy.. “The irony of Mr. Sessions’ nomination is that, if confirmed, he will be given life tenure for doing...
by MCDC | Dec 6, 2016 | 2016 General Election, Action Alerts, Issues, Racism, Virginia
Anti-Muslim rhetoric currently receives widespread media coverage. In the face of a massive refugee crisis and growing instability across the Middle East and North Africa, the public discourse often eschews nuanced distinctions about extremism and misappropriation of...
