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siblings and civil rights lawyer Juanita Jackson Mitchell — whose expertise brought my brother home — worked to correct with activism and courage, an adjective that definitely does not apply to Trump’s Jan. 6
last quote might be King speaking to the white evangelicals who in this week’s Iowa caucuses and beyond have steadfastly supported a man who told Proud Boys to "stand back and stand by," with the Jan. 6,
"Whether it is white supremacists descending on a historic American city in Charlottesville, [Virginia], the assault on our nation’s capital on Jan. 6 or a white supremacist murdering churchgoers at Mother
Governor, please tell that to the family and friends of 6-year-old Wadea Al-Fayoume, a child of Palestinian descent, born in the good old USA, who was stabbed 26 times, allegedly by his landlord and neighbor
“The Democrats have been single-mindedly focused on the rhetoric that led up to tragic events of Jan. 6, and yet for the most part, they’ve been silent when similar language and tactics are used
And that was just one year ago, on Jan. 6, 2021.
What we saw on Jan. 6 was an effort at a totalitarian coup. What we saw on Jan. 6 is not anything I could have ever imagined occurring in this country. It was outrageous. It was pernicious.
Jan. 6, 2021, less than a year ago, saw the same hate, on steroids, with ordinary citizens, members of white supremacist groups and some in the military and law enforcement trying to overturn the
The bill’s Section 6 would set out several practices, including changes to voter identification needed to vote and maintenance of voter rolls, that could be subject to preclearance.
Compare that with the Jan. 6 insurrectionists, who are only now facing justice — and in the case of the first felony sentence of eight months in prison handed out this week, pretty lenient justice at that
There is no more absurd example than in Tennessee, where parents from “Moms for Liberty” don’t want children to learn about what 6-year-old Ruby Bridges endured when she integrated her New Orleans
Senate Armed Services member Tom Cotton of Arkansas went on Fox News last week to call for the resignation of Air Force Academy associate professor Lynne Chandler Garcia, who wrote in a July 6 Washington
Now, the mayhem of the Jan. 6 Capitol insurrection to overturn an election has moved to many states, and Republicans in the Senate this week refused to even discuss an attack on rights that the blood
Joe Manchin III, declared on June 6 that he would oppose the House-passed For the People Act. So what do Democrats do if Congress takes no action and court challenges to the new state laws fail?
It’s a question I ask after hearing too many Republicans dismiss the Jan. 6 attack on the Capitol by a violent pro-Trump mob trying to halt the counting of American citizens’ votes as a “normal tourist
This, as members of his GOP are resisting calls to investigate the Jan. 6 insurrection at the Capitol and downplaying injuries suffered by officers protecting those lawmakers’ hides.
Just months ago, on Jan. 6, violent, hate-filled mobs — cousins in crime to those who greeted the Freedom Riders — stormed the U.S.
Sixty-six percent of Democrats (44-23) and 82 percent of Republicans (27-6) voted to end the filibuster.
After briefing Chairman of the Joint Chiefs Mark Milley, DeMarco, a senior National Guard officer on the scene, said he heard the Park Police at roughly 6:20 p.m. issue the required three warnings
He stands tall, even at 5 feet 6 inches, and can command a room with just a whisper of wisdom on fairness or justice or the requirement to act for what we know is right.