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Block The Vote: A Journalist Discusses Voting Rights And Restrictions
Fifty years ago, the Voting Rights Act outlawed literacy tests and other measures that had prevented African-Americans from voting. After its passage, Congress amended the act four times to increase its scope. But in 2013, a Supreme Court decision blocked the act's...
The 1 percent’s sinister inequality lie
Billionaire industrialist Charles Koch on Sunday compared the efforts of his political network to the fight for civil rights and other “freedom movements,” part of a growing effort by the organization to emphasize its commitment to the plight of the disenfranchised....
Open letter to progressives: You’re doing it wrong and it’ll cost the Democratic Party
This election isn’t as important as Black Lives Matter. You either agree that black people are in a state of emergency and you pitch in or you don’t and you are part of the problem. But, if progressives continue to throw a tantrum over Black Lives Matter disrupting a...
Was the Civil War About Slavery?
What caused the Civil War? Did the North care about abolishing slavery? Did the South secede because of slavery? Or was it about something else entirely...perhaps states' rights? Colonel Ty Seidule, Professor of History at the United States Military Academy at West...
U.S. police kill another unarmed black man every nine days
So far this year, 24 unarmed black men have been shot and killed by police - one every nine days, according to a Washington Post database of fatal police shootings. During a single two-week period in April, three unarmed black men were shot and killed. All...
Editorial: Don’t fire Justice Roush
Editorial: Don’t fire Justice Roush By Virginia Lawyers Weekly Last week’s front page reported that Gov. Terry McAuliffe had tapped Fairfax Circuit Judge Jane Marum Roush to fill a seat on the Supreme Court of Virginia. The choice of Roush was widely applauded. She...
Just Playing Politics With the Bench
FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE August 5, 2015 CONTACT: Morgan Finkelstein, morgan@vademocrats.org Lynchburg News & Advance (Editorial) Odds are most Virginians don’t know the name of a single justice on the state’s Supreme Court, but the court’s impact is felt...
How to be a good ally
Columbia University professor and Roosevelt Institute’s Dorian Warren, Rinku Sen from ColorLines.com, co-President of GlobalGrind.com Michael Skolnik, and Dave Zirin, sports editor for The Nation, join Melissa Harris-Perry for a discussion on how to be a good ally....
Democratic Party of Virginia Launches “So You Googled Jim Gilmore” Website
FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE July 29, 2015 CONTACT: Morgan Finkelstein, morgan@vademocrats.org With Jim Gilmore filing to run for president today, many Americans found themselves furiously googling the nation's 17th GOP candidate. The Democratic Party of Virginia,...
Trump’d
Washington (CNN) — Donald Trump wouldn't apologize Sunday after igniting a political firestorm a day earlier by questioning whether Sen. John McCain -- who spent five years as a prisoner during the Vietnam War -- is a war hero. Asked by ABC News whether he owes...
