U.S. Attorney General Eric Holder was the keynote speaker in downtown Detroit
on Nov. 19 at the first awards dinner for the Advocates and Leaders for Police
and Community Trust, an organization that consists of 50 groups representing
the Arab, Muslim,...
Picture the Homeless held a fundraising public meeting at Judson Memorial
Church in New York City on Nov. 17, PTH’s 10th anniversary. Hundreds of
supporters came out to support this dynamic grassroots organization.
As if the “cash-for-kids” scandal that has two former Luzerne
County judges under indictment on racketeering charges wasn’t enough, now
reports of another pay-back scheme are surfacing—this one elsewhere in
northeastern Pennsylvania’s coal...
At a Nov. 18 news conference called by the disabled rights organization
Warriors on Wheels, members of the group spoke out against the Detroit
Department of Transportation using unsafe transportation providers for seniors
and disabled residents.
A famous U.S. patriot of the Revolutionary War against Britain, Thomas Paine,
is quoted as saying, “These are the times that try men’s
souls.” But for millions of oppressed people in the U.S. and globally,
these times are also a continuation of...
