| Jun 23, 2021 | Economy / Business|Environment / Health|HP Subfeatured|Peace / Security|Rights / DemocracyI grew up on the edge of the Great Dismal Swamp in southern Virginia. We lived in a sewage-ravaged, bug-infested trailer park. I didn’t realize we were poor at first — I thought that’s just how things were. But it was a difficult place to grow up, and as I got older,...
| May 16, 2018 | Economy / Business|Environment / Health|Peace / Security|Rights / DemocracyThousands of civil rights advocates, low-wage workers, and religious leaders kicked off massive protests on May 14, launching a 40-day campaign across the nation in an effort to revive Martin Luther King’s Poor People’s Campaign. The Poor People’s Campaign brings...
| Apr 4, 2018 | Economy / Business|Peace / Security|Rights / DemocracyApril 4 marks the 50th anniversary of the day Martin Luther King, Jr. was assassinated. Just after 6 p.m. on April 4, 1968, King was fatally shot while standing on the balcony outside his second-story room at the Lorraine Motel in Memphis, Tennessee. American history...
| Oct 25, 2017 | Peace / Security|Rights / DemocracyIn our military-revering culture, it’s a strange thing for a president to start a war of words with the grieving families of slain soldiers. Strange, yes. But from Donald Trump’s campaign season feud with the parents of Humayun Khan, who died protecting fellow...
| May 31, 2017 | Peace / SecurityAll right, America. We need to have a talk. The president recently returned from Saudi Arabia, where he gave his Muslim hosts a speech about the threats of “radical Islamist terrorism.” Because Trump steered slightly clear of his usual vitriol toward...
