by David Morse | Uncategorized
Some good news to report here. Al Jazeera America covers the Black Workers Center in Los Angeles, which not only provides jobs and skills training, but also trains black workers to be labor advocates. Unemployment for African Americans is roughly double that of...
by David Morse | Uncategorized
“This bill that we will sign today is not a revolutionary bill. It does not affect the lives of millions,” President Lyndon Johnson said at the signing ceremony of the Immigration and Nationality Act fifty years ago today. “It will not reshape the...
by David Morse | Uncategorized
It’s the first day of autumn, the time for pumpkin spice lattes everywhere you look. And Oktoberfest. But aside from that festival, there’s not much German culture celebrated in the U.S., according to the New York Times. Indeed, with approximately 46...
by David Morse | In the News
We Americans live in interesting times. It’s been fifty years since the Voting Rights Act was passed, and fifty years since the infamous Watts riots in Los Angeles; fifty years have gone by since the mid-point of the “decade that changed everything” – the 1960s....
by David Morse | In the News
Remember back in 2012, when Barack Obama won re-election and his Republican challenger, Mitt Romney, captured an anemic share of the Latino vote? The Republican national party did a post-mortem on what went wrong, and came up with a must-do prescription: reach out to...