| Jan 26, 2022 | HP Subfeatured|Rights / DemocracyIf you’re under the impression that the filibuster is an important tool in the toolbox of American democracy, you’ve been misled. The filibuster is a made-up Senate convention that lets a minority of senators block votes on bills that have majority support. Under...
| Jan 12, 2022 | HP Subfeatured|Rights / DemocracyPresident Joe Biden’s recent visit to Atlanta, Martin Luther King, Jr.’s hometown, focused national attention on a somber fact: the legacy of the civil rights movement is threatened by recent and ongoing attacks on voting rights. Sitting on the campus of Morehouse...
| Jun 16, 2021 | Editors Picks|HP Subfeatured|Rights / DemocracyRev. Dr. Susan K. Smith and Rev. Levon C. Manzie We suspected it for years, and now we know it: Jim Crow was never dead. You might even say he was too mean to die. We know this because in too many places, the forces of racism are raging as laws aimed squarely at...
