| Feb 20, 2019 | HP Subfeatured|Rights / DemocracyIn the 400th year since chattel slavery began in the colony of Virginia in 1619, the Commonwealth has been under severe duress, with its heads of state embroiled in controversies descended from the colony’s founding sin. For weeks, Democrats and Republicans...
| Oct 9, 2018 | Economy / Business|Rights / DemocracyOn a recent night in Richmond, Virginia, speaker after speaker came forward to talk about the multidimensional reality of poverty. The setting was a hearing held by the Poor People’s Campaign: A National Call for Moral Revival. “I’ve been working for years as a...
| Jul 4, 2018 | Peace / Security|Rights / DemocracyOnce again, Americans are trying to wrap our heads around another mass shooting. On June 28, a man gunned down five people at the office of The Capital Gazette, a small Maryland newspaper. My conservative friends and family are passionate about gun rights, convinced...
| Jun 27, 2018 | Environment / Health|Rights / DemocracyIn school, we’re taught that the U.S. is a nation of laws, and no one is above the law. But for communities nationwide fighting natural gas pipelines, they quickly find that the law is stacked against them. Imagine receiving notice one day that a pipeline is going to...
| May 16, 2018 | Environment / Health|Rights / DemocracyI almost cried at a press conference, watching a mother and her grown daughter explain the dramatic lengths they’d gone through to protect their property in Southwest Virginia’s Bent Mountain from the Mountain Valley pipeline. If the pipeline is constructed, it will...
