More than 100 celebrities are pledging to work to deny Donald Trump the presidency. “Will you stand against Donald Trump and the hate he promotes?” That is the question being asked by MoveOn.org Political Action‘s #UnitedAgainstHate campaign. As Bloomberg reports, “Julianne Moore, Bryan Cranston, Kerry Washington, Mark Ruffalo, Neil Patrick Harris, Lena Dunham, Shonda Rhimes, […]
This video clip recalls how Ronald Reagan – “the great communicator” – used racial tensions. In this interview with Bill Moyers, Ian Haney López discusses how Ronald Reagan used “racial tensions to sway middle-class white Americans to vote for policies not in their self-interest.” As reported by Moyers & Co., “In Dog Whistle Politics, author […]
2014 Public Service Announcement Discusses The Absurdity of Victim Blaming. This important Public Service Announcement was inspired by advice found in Cosmopolitan and campus safety brochures that tell women how to avoid being raped. “It speaks to the absurdity of placing responsibility and blame on the victim.” According to the Rape, Abuse & Incest National […]
Have you ever had to live on minimum wage? There has not been a national minimum wage increase for 7 years. For tipped workers? Even worse — it’s been at $2.13 an hour for 25 years. Some states are starting to take their own initiatives to raise the minimum wage and the tipped wage, but […]
Martin Luther King, Jr. Discusses the Importance of Investing in Programs of Social Uplift Versus on Military Defense “A nation that continues year after year to spend more money on military defense than on programs of social uplift is approaching spiritual doom.” ~ Martin Luther King, Jr. By 1967, Martin Luther King, Jr. had become […]