Aug 29, 2023
We are looking at a full-on attack on our hard-fought, hard-won freedoms including our very democracy.Much of this is thwarted by Congress or the courts. The stakes of the election are stark as the GOP is trying to reverse generations of racial progress in America.We...
Jun 14, 2023
The Supreme Court, surprised us deciding that Alabama had diluted the power of Black voters by drawing a congressional voting map with a single district in which they made up a majority. Chief Justice Roberts wrote the majority opinion in the 5-to-4 ruling. He was...
Apr 14, 2023
Women were instrumental in helping during the AIDS crisis, and so I am always an ally in the fight for women’s rights. Since a federal judge in Texas last week invalidated the Food and Drug Administration’s 23-year-old approval of the abortion drug mifepristone,...
Apr 5, 2023
NA long time members Ken and Mack were part of a nationwide team helping Wisconsin Supreme Court flip to a progressive majority. As you probably know, Judge Janet Protasiewicz won by 11% (over 200,000 votes!) and Ken and Mack’s team contributed 200 letters. This...
Mar 24, 2023
For the work to curb the spread of H.I.V. in the Nashville region, workers relied heavily on federal grant money. So they were stunned when Tennessee’s health commissioner announced earlier this year that the state would no longer accept $8.8 million in federal grant...
Jan 30, 2023
The killing of Tyre Nichols, a Black man in Memphis, at the hands of Black police should prompt outrage and condemnation from racial justice activists, police reform advocates and law enforcement officials. Problems of race and policing are a function of an entrenched...
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