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Martin Luther King Jr.’s famous “Letter from a Birmingham Jail,” after all, was a generous yet robust rebuke to fellow faith leaders who urged patience not action in pursuit of justice.
Sometimes, though, it’s serious, as in the case of 1988’s “Mississippi Burning.” Director Alan Parker used the excuse of creative license when he made heroes out of agents in J.
S. Capitol and used dozens of pens to sign one of the most important documents in U. S. history — the Voting Rights Act.
Donald S. Beyer Jr. is a Democrat representing Virginia’s 8th District. He is a member of the New Democrat Coalition and serves as vice chairman of the Joint Economic Committee.
Martin Luther King Jr.’s crusade.
Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez insist they’re not for capital “S” socialism, but if socialism means a living wage, health care for all, and affordable or free education, then what’s so wrong with that?
Martin Luther King Jr.’s “I Have a Dream” speech — the part about judging folks not by the color of their skin but by the content of their character.
This was the man who had disparaged Haiti, the land of her parents’ birth, when he included it on the list of what he reportedly called “s—hole countries.”
Donald S. Beyer Jr. (Virginia’s 8th District), Bonnie Watson Coleman (New Jersey’s 12th District) and Betty McCollum (Minnesota’s 4th District) are Democrats serving in Congress.
Jones and Smith, welcome to S-Town, a place that has become obsessed with the avoidably urgent at the expense of the truly important in a way that may be difficult to reverse.
The state’s S&P bond rating was downgraded twice, making it more expensive to borrow.
In Alabama, Judge Roy S. Moore lost this argument and was suspended over a similar move. So now, is North Carolina failing to learn from Alabama’s mistakes? An uphill battle Democratic Gov.