Those Who Forget History…
This should be published on the front page of every newspaper in our country and in every church bulletin and newsletter. Read it, share it. No greater truth has been told…
Civil Rights
Affirmative Action, 50th Anniversary – Executive Order 11246
Executive Order 11246, signed by President Lyndon B. Johnson (D) on September 24, 1965, established requirements for non-discriminatory practices in hiring and employment on the part of U.S. government contractors. It “prohibits federal contractors and federally assisted construction contractors and subcontractors, who do over $10,000 in Government business in one year from discriminating in employment […]Read Post ›
U.S. Constitution & Citizenship Day 2015
Constitution Day (or Citizenship Day) is an American federal observance that recognizes the ratification of the United States Constitution and those who have become U.S. citizens. It is observed on September 17, the day the U.S. Constitutional Convention signed the Constitution in 1787. The law establishing the holiday was created in 2004 with the passage […]Read Post ›
Campaign 2016 and the 420: Marijuana Policy and the Coming of Big Weed
Is marijuana[1] a weed, or plant? That is, is marijuana a plant one does not want, or a plant that one does? Is marijuana a plant one wishes to pull up, or cultivate? For many years, public policy has deemed marijuana a weed, while at the same time a steadily increasing fraction of the public […]Read Post ›
Daisy Bates and the Little Rock Nine – 58th Anniversary
2015 marks 58 years since black students integrated Central High School in Little Rock, Arkansas. The Little Rock Nine were a group of African-American students enrolled in Little Rock Central High School in 1957. Their enrollment was followed by the Little Rock Crisis, in which the students were initially prevented from entering the racially segregated school by Orval Faubus, the Governor of Arkansas. […]Read Post ›
Women’s Equality Day 2015
Women’s Equality Day is a day proclaimed each year by the United States President to commemorate the granting of the vote to women throughout the country. Women in the United States were granted the right to vote on August 26, 1920, when the 19th Amendment to the United States Constitution was certified as law. The amendment was first introduced many years earlier […]Read Post ›
Nineteenth Amendment is NOT enough!
August 26, 2015 marks the 95th Anniversary of the Woman Suffrage Movement’s great victory, the ratification of the 19th Amendment to the U.S. Constitution. This courageous political campaign, which spanned 72 years, was carried out by tens of thousands of persistent women and men. The significance of the woman suffrage campaign and its enormous […]Read Post ›
While you were sleeping 