For almost 90 minutes Sunday morning, immigrants and those undocumented U.S. residents who were brought to the country as children could reasonably have thought that Donald Trump had wished them a “HAPPY EASTER!” But a couple hours after firing off that all-caps blip of holiday cheer on Twitter, the president was back to the decidedly […]
Teachers across Oklahoma plan a massive walkout Monday to demand better pay and school funding. Those on strike plan to gather at the Capitol to protest. Currently, Oklahoma falls at the very bottom of the list of states ranked by teacher pay. Teacher salaries haven’t changed in 10 years and lawmakers have slashed the education […]
A Sacramento County Sheriff’s Department (SCSD) vehicle struck a protester Saturday night and sped away from the scene at a vigil for Stephon Clark, who was killed by officers from the Sacramento Police Department (SPD) two weeks earlier. Video shot by a legal observer shows marchers filtering past and between a pair of SCSD vehicles […]
By Jeremy Deaton It was one of the largest youth-led protests since the Vietnam War, as hundreds of thousands of Americans took to the capital to protest gun violence. But it wasn’t the size or scale of the March for Our Lives that made it remarkable. As Robinson Meyer of The Atlantic wrote, it was that “adults paid attention to the everyday lives […]
Laura Ingraham announced on Friday that she was taking last-minute “Easter break” from her show. But The Laura Ingraham Angle is on the ropes: the show is hemorrhaging advertisers after she bullied teenaged Parkland shooting survivor David Hogg. Laura Ingraham takes an ‘Easter break’ after advertisers rush to drop her program It all started when […]
Wendi C. Thomas had not yet been born when the Rev. Dr. Martin Luther King Jr. was assassinated on April 4, 1968 in Memphis, Tennessee. Yet the slain civil rights leader’s struggle for racial equality and fairness for poor people has inspired her life and career. Though born in Ohio, Thomas, 46, has spent most […]