By Te-Nihisi Coates, The Atlantic I’ve been thinking about Barbara Tuchman’s medieval history, A Distant Mirror, over the past couple of weeks. The book is a masterful work of anti-romance, a cold-eyed look at how generations of aristocrats and royalty waged one of the longest wars in recorded history, all while claiming the mantle of a […]
Joe Biden Remarks On State of the Economy – Dover, DE – June 5, 2020 (Shutterstock) By Rodney Gabel, The Conversation President Joe Biden called for American unity after four years of political divisiveness and the “raging fire” it provoked. He promised to be a president for all Americans. “I will fight as hard for […]
Amanda Gorman at the American Black Film Festival Honors Awards at the Beverly Hilton Hotel on February 23, 2020 in Beverly Hills, CA (Shutterstock) By Julia Barajas, LA Times Like most of us, Amanda Gorman has been cooped up in her West Los Angeles apartment binge-watching “The Great British Baking Show” because of the pandemic. […]
Amanda Gorman, 22, who delivered the inauguration poem, “The Hill We Climb,” said: ” If we merge mercy with might, and might with right, then love becomes our legacy.” With the inauguration of President Joseph “Joe” Biden and Vice-President Kamala Harris come dreams, love, and hope – a new beginning, a new dawn. The work […]
Census 2020 meeting with Federal Census Bureau Director Dr. Steven Dillingham at the Broward County Government Center East with Commissioner Barbara Sharief – Fort Lauderdale, FL / USA – 1/8/2020 (Shutterstock) By Mike Schneider, AOL President Donald Trump’s effort to exclude people in the U.S. illegally from being counted in the process for divvying up […]
Palestine Howze didn’t have COVID-19, but a law enacted to protect health providers during the pandemic could derail her family’s wrongful death suit.
By Sean Campbell, ProPublica In early April, before COVID-19 hit her state hard, Palestine Howze was in a Durham, North Carolina, nursing home, living in pain. She had lost her legs to diabetes, and for months she had been suffering through a bedsore. In her medical records, staff noted that Howze, 71, would moan through […]
2021 is the year of reckoning. As we celebrate MLK, let’s remember this quote: “Our lives begin to end the day we become silent about things that matter.” Attorney Brian Figeroux shares his thoughts. Legal Help Get a FREE, no-obligation consultation here. Ask the Lawyer. Call 855-768-8845 or visit www.askthelawyer.us
New security and fencing in place at the Nation’s Capitol after the building was stormed by Trump-supporting rioters early this week. Guardsmen deployed. – Washington, DC – January 9th 2021 (Shutterstock) By Sir Ronald Sanders Recent events in Washington, the revered capital of the United States of America, have shaken the moral authority of that […]
By BBC Lisa Montgomery – the only female inmate on federal death row in the US – has been executed for murder. She received a lethal injection at a prison in Terre Haute, Indiana, after a last-minute stay of execution was lifted by the US Supreme Court. The case attracted attention because her lawyers argued […]
President-elect Joe Biden’s twitter field on January 11, 2021. (Twitter) By Robert Carroll, NY Daily News President-elect Biden, on Jan. 20, you have the power and authority to make one simple decision to make it clear to America that a new era has begun and that you are serious about healing our nation and starting the […]