Politics Archive
You’ve heard of “driving while black.” That’s the police penalty on black motorists, who get stopped, ticketed and searched more often and for flimsier reasons than white drivers. Then there’s “learning while black, male and with disabilities.” That’s the trifecta …
FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE April 12, 2018 Contact: Dustin Chicurel-Bayard, dustin@scsj.org, 919.323.4051 Mackenzie Long, mlong@wearerally.com, 916.524.3197 Voters File Federal Court Challenge to Voter Intimidation Efforts in Virginia Voter intimidation violates Ku Klux Klan Act, created in 1871 to protect voters from …
A guest post by Dr Patricia Fronek, Senior Lecturer in the School of Human Services and Social Work, Gold Coast Campus, Griffith University. Tricia is the creator and producer of Podsocs It is indeed a time for outrage. The far right is exerting …
Image via Bioethics/Medical Ethics/Animal Ethics The Human Thing: When It’s Not About “Bioethics” “In the place of narcissistic and subjective dignity wrongly invoked by procreation militants, we need a return to the transcendent and objective dignity of human nature.” …
Each day since the presidential election in 2016 I have mourned. Since the inauguration, everyday I feel like I am a stranger in a strange land. I learned early on to stop saying 'it can't get any worse.' (Hang …
The youngest voters consistently cast ballots the least — 18- to 24 year-olds voted almost 10 percent less than 25- to 34-year-olds in 2016, according to U.S. Census Bureau data. Time and time again, young voters vote at a rate …
Although juvenile arrests in the US have decreased the past few decades, arrests for girls younger than 18 are up — yet there is little focus on the context behind this trend.
#Marchforourlives has taken over national headlines, as well it should. This student driven movement, that not only addresses one of the largest public health issues of our time, but also does so in such an inclusive fashion that civil rights …
I never had active shooter drills in schools. We had one nuclear bomb once that seemed silly, as hallways and desks were known even then for being a poor substitute to any actual threat. Now children go through so many …
RALEIGH, N.C. — The Southern Coalition for Social Justice filed a redistricting challenge in Wake County Superior Court today arguing that the 2017 changes to four Wake County State House Districts violate the state constitution’s prohibition against mid-decade redistricting; asking …
