by MCDC | Mar 5, 2014 | Action Alerts, Civil Rights, Video, Virginia, Voter Rights
Augustine Carter, an 85-year-old voter in Richmond, tells her story of the trouble she went through to vote in 2012. Born in 1928, she never had a birth certificate and she never got a driver’s license because she decided years ago that driving wasn’t for...
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 26, 2014 | Civil Rights, Video
As attorney general of Virginia, Ken Cuccinelli fought long and hard to reinstate an unconstitutional law banning consensual sodomy in the state. Defending his record as a state senator who routinely opposed basic legal protections for LGBTQ people, Cuccinelli...
by MCDC | Feb 14, 2014 | Citizens United, Ethics, Events, News, Video
Inspired by Doris “Granny D” Haddock, whom at the age of 88 walked across America to bring attention to this critical issue, the New Hampshire Rebellion set out to traverse 185 miles and inspire people in the Granite State to ask all presidential candidates just one...
by MCDC | Feb 14, 2014 | Affordable Care Act/Obamacare, Health Care, Video
By Salvatore Aversa Representative Phil Roe, a Republican from Tennessee, speaking on Tuesday, February 11, 2014, at the Heritage Foundation’s Conservative Policy Summit, took the opportunity to oppose ObamaCare, while also announcing a little too much information...
by MCDC | Feb 9, 2014 | Action Alerts, Events, Income Inequality, Minimum Wage, Video
Please join us on February 27th for an “Inequality for All” Watch Party! Following the film, Secretary Reich and Senator Elizabeth Warren will join us on a conference call to talk about how to change the conversation on income inequality. ROBERT B. REICH,...