by MCDC | Mar 5, 2015 | Civil Rights, Discrimination, News, Racism
So far, a disproportionate amount of press attention has focused on racist emails circulated by Ferguson officials, causing two to be fired and one to be placed on leave. While the correspondence in question is deeply offensive and worthy of condemnation, it is...
by MCDC | Mar 5, 2015 | News
Netanyahu came to the United States and rebuked President Obama and US foreign policy and intelligence before a national audience (even though he tossed in some pro forma claims of respect for Obama), in order to sabotage foreign policy and ensure his own reelection....
by MCDC | Mar 5, 2015 | 2015 General Election, Ethics, Issues, News, Virginia
When the dust settled in the GOP-controlled legislature, the loopholes stayed wide open, and the action turned out to be mostly...
by MCDC | Mar 4, 2015 | News, Virginia
BY JIM NOLAN Richmond Times-Dispatch Richmond Mayor Dwight C. Jones is expected to step aside this weekend as chairman of the Democratic Party of Virginia. Sources said Jones, who was appointed chairman by Gov. Terry McAuliffe, will formally step aside at a meeting of...
by MCDC | Mar 4, 2015 | Civil Rights, Discrimination, Events, News, Racism, Video
By Sari Horwitz The Justice Department will issue findings Wednesday that accuse the police department in Ferguson, Mo., of racial bias and routinely violating the constitutional rights of black citizens by stopping drivers without reasonable suspicion, making arrests...
by MCDC | Mar 3, 2015 | 2015 General Election, Madison County, Virginia, Voter Rights
GERRYMANDERING is the deliberate manipulation of legislative district boundaries to advantage or benefit a particular party or group, or to cause disadvantage or harm to an opposing party or group. It distorts the electoral process, undermines democracy, and renders...
