Voices
June 5, 2012 -
Republican claims of alleged voter fraud have convinced legions of Americans that massive numbers of mostly blacks and Hispanics with the connivance of Democrats are knowingly breaking the law to vote against the GOP -- when in reality it's just the opposite.
May 18, 2012 -
May 20 marks the day that the Emancipation Proclamation was read in 1865 in Florida, marking the end of slavery. Today, a new movement to end slavery in the fields is gaining force among Florida farmworkers.
May 15, 2012 -
The push for the Tar Sands pipeline from Canada to the Gulf Coast comes with big promises of jobs and energy independence. But community leaders that will be most affected by the project are speaking out about the toxic consequences.
May 9, 2012 -
Rev. Dr. William J. Barber II, president of the North Carolina State Conference of the NAACP, discusses why we can't stop now in the fight for equality.
May 4, 2012 -
North Carolina is the scene of an embarrassing national spectacle these days. But it's not the details of Edward's screwed-up personal life that constitute the chief embarrassment -- it's the trial's existence in the first place.
April 17, 2012 -
Faith leaders across the Gulf are calling on Congress to pass a law that would send fines levied against BP for the oil spill back to affected communities.
April 17, 2012 -
Rather than commiserate at tax time, let's celebrate our collective effort to build a better society.
