By Felicia M. Davis Director of the HBCU Green Fund and on the boards of Green 2.0 and The National Coalition on Black Civic Participation. President Trump visiting West Virginia to announce a major rollback in regulations limiting coal fired power plant emissions feels like being lost in a dark coal mine, reaching a fork […]
Trump’s Ongoing Scandals Mask a Radical Agenda that Hurts Everyday People
By Jesse Jackson Trump’s serial scandals—Stormy Daniels, the Russia investigation, the Paul Manafort verdict, the Cohen guilty plea, the juvenile tweets—fill the headlines. Beneath the noise, however, Trump’s appointees and the Republican Congress are relentlessly pursuing a radical right-wing agenda that is gutting basic protections for workers, consumers and the environment. This is often characterized […]
Milwaukee’s Addiction Crisis Hits Close to Home for All of Us
By U.S. Senator Tammy Baldwin Earlier this year, I decided to tell a very personal story that I hadn’t shared with many people before. I often talk about being raised by my grandparents, especially during discussions in Milwaukee about the importance of strengthening Social Security or Medicare, supporting family caregivers or bringing down skyrocketing prescription […]
Verizon Slows Internet While Firefighters Needed it to Save Lives
Legislatively Speaking By Senator, Lena C. Taylor Social Implications of Trump’s Changes to Internet Access In May, I joined my Democratic colleagues on the state and federal level in denouncing the Federal Communications Commission (FCC) decision to repeal Net Neutrality rules. Net Neutrality was intended to keep the internet free and accessible, while treating all […]
They Brought Their Own Chair
Legislatively Speaking By Senator, Lena C. Taylor “If they don’t give you a seat at the table, bring a folding chair.” Judging by record-breaking voter turnout in Wisconsin recent partisan-primary, both voters and candidates got the memo. They’re not only bringing a chair, but they come well prepared to sit at the table with policy […]
Future of Democratic Party Lies in Moving to the Moral Center
By Jesse Jackson The media is now reporting on the debate among Democrats and activists about what the party should stand for, and how it will win elections. Establishment Democrats said fear that the populist reform energy represented by Bernie Sanders and rising star Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez (who upset Rep. Joe Crowley, the fourth-ranking Democrat in […]
Fighting Racial Harassment
By Gloria J. Browne-Marshall Racial harassment is illegal. Like sexual harassment, racial harassment is as old as freedom itself. With freedom there are those who cannot accept the equality of others. When the oppressed finally gain their rights under law then there will be an attempt, by some, to reduce those freedoms to mere words […]
Is the Black Vote Still Being Treated Like a Political Piñata?
Democrats and Republicans Must Do More to Engage African Americans By Jeffrey L. Boney (NNPA Newswire Political Analyst) When it comes to politics in this country, there is one thing that seems to be a constant—the Black vote is important and always tends to make a difference. Although Blacks make up roughly 13 percent of […]
It’s Time to Put Politics to Work
By Kurt Kober Well, we are almost to the Democratic Primary. In fact, it’s only days away. There has been a lot of noise in this primary, but here’s what it boils down to: August 14th is a chance to make your voice heard, and it’s a chance to elect leaders who are ready to […]
3D Guns: Laws Need to Catch Up with Technology
Legislatively Speaking By Senator, Lena C. Taylor Recently, a new dimension was added to the gun debate: 3D printed guns. Yes, I said “printed” guns. The development was started by Defense Distributed (DD), an online company created for the sole purpose of posting gun diagrams online and making them available for anyone to make with […]
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