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Sep 10, 2013
2 min

Marching for a Living Wage

Dedrick Muhammad – Senior Director of Economic Programs, NAACP Posted: 09/09/2013 12:56 pm Last week’s commemoration of the March on Washington and this week’s celebration of Labor Day reminds us of the continued sacrifices and social and economic contributions of our country’s workers. Fifty years after the March on Washington for Jobs and Freedom left an indelible mark on the nation, we should remember that the struggle for racial equality had at its core many of the same f

Derrick Bell: Changing the Odds for Others

Jay Murdock

Jan 20, 2012
3 min

Derrick Bell: Changing the Odds for Others

Marian Wright Edelman – President, Children’s Defense Fund Posted: 1/19/12 07:10 PM ET “In all my courses, I really have to teach the basic messages of my life… that the rewards, the satisfactions, are not in being partner or making a million dollars, but in recognizing evils, recognizing injustices, and standing up and speaking out about them even in absolutely losing situations where you know it’s not going to bring about any change—that there are intangible rewards to the

Robert Carter, Fighter Against Segregation, Dies

Jay Murdock

Jan 5, 2012
2 min

Robert Carter, Fighter Against Segregation, Dies

NEW YORK (AP) — Robert Carter, a lawyer who was an integral member of the team led by Thurgood Marshall that turned to the courts to battle segregation, has died. He was 94. Carter, who later spent decades on the federal judiciary, died Tuesday morning at a Manhattan hospital after suffering a stroke last week, said his son, John Carter, who is a judge on the New York state bench. Robert Carter joined Marshall at the National Association for the Advancement of Colored People’

Prison Spending Bleeds the Education System

Jay Murdock

Apr 8, 2011
4 min

Prison Spending Bleeds the Education System

There is a bipartisan tide of lawmakers who are trying to fix our nation’s out-of-control corrections system, and make funding for education the priority. California Gov. Jerry Brown signed a bill to transfer thousands of nonviolent offenders from state prisons to county jails, an admirable effort to reduce prison overcrowding and make treatment programs more effective. In Virginia, Gov. Robert McDonnell is working to close eight prison facilities and use that money to suppor

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