Civil rights - we all have them, but do we understand what they mean and what to do if our rights are violated? United States Attorney William Ihlenfeld and his staff were at the Monongalia Community Center at Mylan Park in Morgantown Tuesday for an open discussion with community leaders ...
“Dare we hope?” That was the rather plaintive response of a man on Twitter when news broke that Kansas voters had rejected an attempt to remove the right to abortion from their state constitution. We are talking about a fire-engine-red state. It went for Donald Trump in 2016 and ...
by Christopher M. Richardson After the Dobbs decision ended federal protections for abortion, some high-profile responses suggested the ruling marked the first time the Supreme Court rescinded an established fundamental right. But that is not true for Black Americans. They did gain, ...
They have never once been right. Did you ever notice that? Do you ever think about it? Never once. Oh, in matters of, say, foreign affairs or military strategy, one might contend that conservatives have had their moments, made arguments that, arguably, made sense. But on matters of ...
When you’re right, you’re right. And you are definitely right about that quote from Martin Luther King. When he stood at the temple of Lincoln in 1963 and declared his dream “that my four little children will one day live in a nation where they will not be judged by the color of ...
Few people realize that Academy Award-winning actor Sidney Poitier, who died Friday at 94, was born in Miami. Miami is also where the actor, who broke endless racial boundaries through his art, first encountered deep racism as a teen. An incident in the city with the hate group the Ku Klux ...