Category: Politics

— EUGENE ROBINSON, The Washington Post This is a moment to get mad and to get even. The way to do that is to crush President Trump and pulverize the Republican Party in the coming election. Trump has the power to name a replacement for Justice Ruth Bader Ginsburg, who died last week. He says he will […]

— Nina Totenberg, NPR Justice Ruth Bader Ginsburg, the demure firebrand who in her 80s became a legal, cultural, and feminist icon has died. The Supreme Court announced her death, saying the cause was complications from cancer. Architect of the legal fight for women’s rights in the 1970s, Ginsburg subsequently served 27 years on the […]

The United States has its best opportunity in 150 years to belatedly fulfill its promise as a multiracial democracy. — Adam Serwer, The Atlantic After george floyd was killed, Donald Trump sensed an opportunity. Americans, anguished and angry over Floyd’s death, had erupted in protest—some set fires, broke the windows of department stores, and stormed a […]

How Black mayors in the South are leveraging both the power of office and the power of the street to achieve overdue changes — Adam Harris, The Atlantic Steven l. reed smooths his gray suit jacket before he grips the podium. The mayor of Montgomery, Alabama, Reed has seen the coronavirus tear through his city faster […]

Charlotta Bass ran on the Progressive Party ticket in 1952 and homage was paid to her after Sen. Kamala Harris was picked to be Joe Biden’s VP By Stephanie Guerilus, theGrio Sen. Kamala Harris is the first Black woman and Asian American to be a running mate on a major ticket but Charlotta Bass is actually the first Black […]

By Wesley Bell, The St. Louis American On June10, 1954, governors and representatives from twelve Southern states met in Richmond, Virginia, and resolved to defiantly resist the United States Supreme Court’s decision in Brown v. Board of Education.Released less than a month earlier, the Brown decision struck down racial segregation laws — prevalent in the South — that required separate public schools […]

A union chief says the changes, which have been more drastic than people realize, are costing more money — not less By Igor Derysh, Salon Mail sorting equipment is being removed from U.S. Postal Service (USPS) offices amid a slew of operational changes implemented by new Postmaster General Louis DeJoy, according to the head of the […]

By Clare Foran, CNN Washington (CNN)Democratic Rep. Ilhan Omar, a member of the progressive “Squad” in Congress, defeated a well-funded challenger in a Minnesota Democratic primary on Tuesday, CNN projected. Antone Melton-Meaux, an attorney who runs a mediation practice and is a first-time candidate for elected office, raised a substantial amount of money in his bid to take […]

By Michael Harriot, The Root We should stop referring to Donald Trump as a racist. Racism—the “belief that race is the primary determinant of human traits and capacities”—is a personal and individual principle that only exists in theory. Racism cannot be objectively measured or detected, as it is always subject to interpretation. Because of this, […]