The residents of Tchula, Mississippi live with deep poverty that stems from slavery and Jim Crow. By Scott Rodd [caption id="attachment_9145" align="alignright" width="300"] Credit: Scott Rodd, ThinkProgress[/caption] Andrew sat a...
The most financially vulnerable Americans are falling into the Debt Trap. By Larry Checco Fifty years ago, President Lyndon B. Johnson launched his Great Society, a set of domestic programs...
By righting a 150-year-old wrong, re-enactors aim to help remedy long untreated ills at the root of today’s #BlackLivesMatter movement. Hundreds of African-American men marched to the White House this...
New report details how being poor in America has become a crime. By Terrell Jermaine Starr This piece originally appeared on Alternet.org. [caption id="attachment_8927" align="alignright" width="300"] Municipalities are fining and...
