by MCDC | Nov 20, 2014 | Civil Rights, Events, Immigration Reform, Racism, Video
Our immigration system has been broken for decades. And every day we wait to act, millions of undocumented immigrants are living in the shadows: Those who want to pay taxes and play by the same rules as everyone else have no way to live right by the law. That is why...
by MCDC | May 26, 2014 | Ethics, Racism
Usually Republicans are a little more subtle in their contempt for poor people in urban areas. But now they’re being completely up-front about it. Poor white kids will get extra money for meals when school is out of session. Poor black kids won’t....
by MCDC | Apr 24, 2014 | Racism, Video
I want to tell you one more thing I know about the Negro,” he said. Mr. Bundy recalled driving past a public-housing project in North Las Vegas, “and in front of that government house the door was usually open and the older people and the kids — and there is always at...
by MCDC | Mar 13, 2014 | Civil Rights, Economy, Education, Employment, Ethics, Income Inequality, Racism
Adapted from an article by DAVID SIROTA Code words are politicians’ stock in trade. As Republican strategist Lee Atwater famously admitted, that’s especially true when it comes to racially coded rhetoric about economics. Terms like “welfare queen” are obvious...
by MCDC | Mar 1, 2014 | Education, Racism, Video
American Promise is an intimate and provocative account, recorded over 12 years, of the experiences of two middle-class African-American boys who entered a very prestigious–and historically white–private school on Manhattan’s Upper East Side....
by MCDC | Feb 22, 2014 | Action Alerts, Civil Rights, Events, Racism, Virginia
Please join us for a “Black Youth Matter” Rally on February 28, 2014 at 7:00 PM at the Freedom Wall (located directly in front of City Hall and beside the city’s amphitheater) on the Downtown Mall in Charlottesville, Virginia and a “Black Boys Matter” movie and...
