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Statement Regarding Recent Tragic Events
MADISON VA – July 9, 2016 It is impossible not to be outraged by the devastating images of people being gunned down on a shockingly regular basis, and it should be impossible to remain silent in the face of this sustained injustice any longer. Sadly, the tragedies...
Do we have a misunderstanding?
If I say "black lives matter", and you think I mean "black lives matter more than others", we have a misunderstanding. If I say "white privilege is real" and it means white people have some unearned social advantages just because they're white, and you think I mean...
Ex-KKK Grand Wizard David Duke rushes to Trump’s defense on Star Of David tweet
By now you’ve surely seen the graphic critical of Hillary Clinton that the presumptive Republican presidential candidate tweeted out over the holiday weekend, just as his rival was set to be grilled by the FBI for its investigation into email practices at the State...
Mitch McConnell: The NRA Must Approve Any New Supreme Court Justice
In an interview with Fox News Sunday yesterday, McConnell told host Chris Wallace that a new Supreme Court justice must have the approval of the National Rifle Association (NRA). https://youtu.be/ix7lQLplA_E Ian Millhiser of ThinkProgress explains the two right-wing...
What is Patriotism?
https://youtu.be/l6RDueR7t9s Please join us in the parade in Stanardsville on July 4th. The parade will go on, rain or shine. We will be assembling in front of the High School, in parade spot 46 (the numbers are in chalk on the road), starting at 9:00 am. The parade...
Jesse Williams' Powerful, Inspiring Speech on Race Relations
Transcript: "Now, this award, this is not for me. This is for the real organizers all over the country. The activists, the civil rights attorneys, the struggling parents, the families, the teachers, the students that are realizing that a...
‘Good trouble’: How John Lewis fuses new and old tactics to teach about civil disobedience
At the height of the civil rights movement, before he could even dream of becoming a congressman from Georgia, Lewis trekked cross-country as one of the original 13 Freedom Riders. He was chairman of the Student Nonviolent Coordinating Committee. In Alabama, he...
Restore the Voting Rights Act
Three years ago this week — on June 25, 2013 — the U.S. Supreme Court in its Shelby County v. Holder decision gutted the Voting Rights Act (VRA), a civil rights law signed by President Lyndon Johnson in 1965 to ban racial discrimination in voting. Within minutes of...
All in the name of profit
https://youtu.be/A2yDxc85zG0 Following the worst mass shooting in modern American history, 56 senators blocked critical gun safety measures that would have kept guns out of the hands of people on the terror watch list. #Republicans won't allow guns at their own...
Congratulations, Yasmine Taeb!
"Yesterday, I was incredibly honored and proud to be elected as the first Iranian and Muslim-American from Virginia to serve on the Democratic National Committee! I can't begin to express how humbled and thankful I am for the support I received not only from my...
