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Mitch McConnell’s ancestors owned slaves: report
Senate Majority Leader Mitch McConnell, who recently voiced opposition to reparations for the descendants of slaves, has slave owners in his Alabama family line — with two ancestors owning at…
Cocaine bricks keep washing up in the Philippines
Over the past few months, bricks of cocaine with a street value of millions have been washing up in eastern coastal provinces in the Philippines. In the latest incident, seven…
Sen. Mitch McConnell’s great-great-grandfathers owned 14 slaves, bringing reparations issue close to home
Senate Majority Leader Mitch McConnell, who said recently he opposes paying government reparations to the descendants of American slaves, has a family history deeply entwined in the issue: Two of…
Report: Mitch McConnell found to be the direct descendant of 2 slave owners
Census records from the mid-1800s show that two great-great-grandfathers of Senate Majority Leader Mitch McConnell (R-Ky.) were slave owners, NBC News reports. … Read the full article at The Week.
After McConnell opposes reparations, NBC report shows his great-great-grandfathers owned 14 slaves
Two of Senate Majority Leader Mitch McConnell’s (R-Ky.) ancestors owned a total of more than a dozen slaves, according to an investigation by NBC News completed shortly after McConnell spoke in opposition to…
How Trump Forced Democrats to Become the Party of War
In a special third segment of “By Any Means Necessary” Eugene Puryear and Sean Blackmon are joined by Netfa Freeman, an analyst at the Institute for Policy Studies and coordinating committee…
Kamala Harris Proposes $100 Billion Black Homeownership Plan
Joining what seems like every black woman in America at Essence Fest, senator and presidential hopeful Kamala Harris unveiled a $100 billion plan to increase black homeownership that, if implemented,…
Asked about urban decay and homelessness, Trump offers senseless, babbling answer
Donald Trump recently gave a remarkable response to a question about “filth” in US cities from Fox News host Tucker Carlson. In an interview that must be seen to be believed, Trump babbles incoherently…
Jewish Groups Protest at Pelosi’s Office, Demand Closure of Border Migrant Facilities
Bay Area progressive Jewish groups protested outside House Speaker Nancy Pelosi’s San Francisco office Friday to demand the closure of border migrant facilities, echoing similar recent demonstrations on the East Coast.…
Bernie Sanders on target saying 3 richest have as much wealth as bottom half of all Americans
In an opinion article he wrote for the Wall Street Journal, U.S. Sen. Bernie Sanders, I-Vt., called for an end to “corporate socialism” and made a claim about wealth inequality. … Read the…
Sorry ‘Washington Post’—Bernie Sanders Is Right About Economic Inequality
Bernie Sanders has, for a very long time, been complaining about economic inequality in America. He has made it a theme of his speeches, his books, his congressional service and…
Washington Post Dives to New Stupid Low to Attack Bernie
It’s the first day of July, so summer is here and rent is due. You probably have to pay your student loans and credit cards, too. Feeling a bit light…
WaPo Fact Checker’s New Bernie Sanders Category: TRUE BUT I DON’T LIKE IT
The Washington Post’s “Fact Checker” column turned its reptilian eye to statements made during last week’s second half of the first Democratic debate, and found some fibs (Joe Biden did oppose busing),…
Washington Post fact-check exposes how far media will go to cover up economic inequality
Fact-checking is a thriving media industry, but every now and then a fact-checker offers up a judgment so questionable that it shows just how biased a person can be in the…
The 10 books to read in August
August is traditionally a “dead month” in publishing, a time when every agent, editor and production director takes vacation, filling East Coast beaches with tote bags of unread manuscripts and…
The Democrats’ Cautious Return to the War on Poverty
The poor used to matter—at least as far as political rhetoric goes. About half a century ago, Lyndon Johnson launched a war not on the struggles of the American middle class…
Organizaciones de DDHH piden a Gobierno de Honduras cesar represión
Diversas organizaciones internacioales de Derechose Humano exigieron al Gobierno de Honduras cesar los abusos de las fuerzas del orden contra los manifestantes en las calles. Lee el articulo aqui.
Portlanders at risk of displacement need a seat at the table, Cat Goughnour says
What if black Oregonians at risk of displacement by gentrification had a say in how their neighborhoods were designed? That’s the question at the heart of Right 2 Root, a community-health-centered,…
TAXING THE (VERY) RICH: FINDING THE CURE FOR EXCESSIVE WEALTH DISORDER
Once a subject often kept behind the curtain, tax policy has quickly risen to fame recently while more political leaders discuss why tax policy has gone so wrong in our…
Joe Biden’s claim that ‘almost half’ of Americans live in poverty
What does it mean to be poor? Biden took an expansive view at a presidential candidate forum hosted by anti-poverty advocates. The Census Bureau calculates the poverty rate in different…
America Must Make Amends for the Horror of Slavery
Juneteenth is a celebration of freedom. The name comes from a combination of the two words in the date, June nineteenth. On that day in 1865, 250,000 slaves in Texas…
Oyster Creek shutdown in NJ could leave high taxes, giant casks of dangerous radioactive waste
Three miles of pine forest separate Paul Berkowicz’s ranch-style home from a cluster of towering canisters on a concrete pad containing one of mankind’s most dangerous substances. For decades, the 68-year-old retired educator has…
Barack Obama’s Juneteenth Tweet Honors The Holiday’s History
Wednesday, June 19 marks Juneteenth, the holiday that commemorates the abolition of slavery in America and emancipation of enslaved African-Americans following the Civil War. In celebration of this day, Barack Obama’s Juneteenth…
The 2020 Democratic primary debate over reparations, explained
For much of the 150 years since the official end of slavery in the United States, talk of the need for reparations has existed. In 2019, that discussion has become…
Anti-poverty advocates urge Congress to pass a ‘moral’ budget
Advocates for the poor will urge Congress to pass a “moral” budget that addresses poverty and systemic racism, according to testimony obtained by The Hill that will be delivered before…
Poor People’s Campaign and 2020
Lindsay Koshgarian, program director at the National Priorities Project and Nijmie Dzurinko, organizer and chair of the Pennsylvania Poor People’s Campaign discuss their as The Poor People’s Campaign is convening in…
Democrat 2020 candidates grilled by Christian-left leaders at ‘Moral Action Congress’
WASHINGTON — Nine presidential candidates, including a former vice president, three senators and one congressman, were questioned Monday at a presidential forum hosted by a coalition of left-leaning religious leaders…
How to raise $9 trillion for working-class people without really trying
Stop me if you’ve heard this one before: Elected officials are calling faith leaders and social workers to Capitol Hill to talk about how the U.S. might begin helping the…
At House Hearing, Poor People’s Campaign Demands End to ‘Systemic Policy Violence Against the Poor’
The heads of the Poor People’s Campaign reiterated their call for a moral budget on Wednesday as they testified before a Congressional hearing and decried the “moral crisis” of poverty in the U.S. ……
Pelosi Remarks at Budget Committee Hearing with Poor People’s Campaign
Washington, D.C. – Speaker Nancy Pelosi delivered remarks at the Budget Committee Hearing, “Poverty In America: Economic Realities of Struggling Families,” which also featured testimony from Reverend Dr. William Barber,…
