New York, NY – July 27, 2022: Attorney General Letitia James speaks during rally at 1199 SEIU Headquarters. (Shutterstock) By Bridget J. Crawford, The Conversation What are Trump and his children accused of in the lawsuit? The complaint is over 200 pages long and contains many specific claims. But, at its heart, the complaint says […]
PARIS, FRANCE – JULY 13, 2017 : The President of United States of America Donald Trump at the Elysee Palace for an extended interview with the French President. (Shutterstock) By Domenico Montanaro, NPR Following the shooting in Buffalo, N.Y., focus has been trained on the “replacement” theory, also known as “white replacement” theory. That’s because […]
Clarence Thomas, Supreme Court nominee, testifies before U. S. Senate Judiciary Committee. September 12, 1991 – Washington, DC, USA (Shutterstock) By Mark Joseph Stern, MSN Justice Clarence Thomas is not backing down from the fight to legitimize Donald Trump’s claims that the 2020 election was rife with fraud. On Monday morning, Thomas issued a startling opinion ranting […]
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 […]
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 […]
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 […]
New York City Mayor Bill de Blasio (D-NY) speaks during a press conference at City Hall on January 9, 2021 in New York City. (Shutterstock) NEW YORK—Mayor Bill de Blasio today announced that the City of New York is taking steps to terminate three Trump Organization agreements with the City after last week’s deadly insurrection […]
By Eshani Pandya, Immigration Impact The backbone of a functioning justice system is due process. Yet over 1.25 million immigrants are fighting for their right to survive in an immigration court system that is anything but fair. For years, immigration advocates have been calling on the government to fix the dysfunction in the immigration court […]
Trump supporters rioting at the US Capitol. – Washington, DC – January, 6 2021 (Shutterstock) By Claudia Irizarry Aponte, Christine Chung, Clifford Michel and Greg B. Smith, THE CITY Freshman Rep. Ritchie Torres woke before sunrise Wednesday, anticipating a day to celebrate democracy when he would get to participate in the Congressional approval of the […]
Stacey Abrams speaks at a National Press Club luncheon. – Washington, DC/USA – November 15, 2019 (Shutterstock) By Van Jones, CNN (CNN) – With one Senate seat secured for Democrats in Georgia and the other Senate race yet to be called, it is already clear that there is a lesson to be learned from the runoffs. […]