Fifty-seven years ago, hundreds of committed voting rights activists attempted to march across the Edmund Pettus Bridge in Selma, Alabama. They were met with slurs, batons and smoke bombs. But they didn’t give up […]
By RENETTA W. HOWARD IN CINQUE We have heard the word 3-D for many years as during the early 1950’s we were able to go and see the 3-D movies which had to be […]
By MICHELLE TREMILLO Texas Organizing Project Gov. Abbott and Texas Republicans proved to us again in this latest special session that it’s cruelty that drives their policy-making, not humanity and the issues affecting the […]
By BECKY PRINGLE and OVIDIA MOLINA National Education Association and Texas State Teachers Association Note: NBC News reported that a top official at the Carroll Independent School District in Southlake, Texas, advised teachers […]
By RENETTA W. HOWARD IN CINQUE Many poems have been written about fall and some have been set to music. It is the time of the year when the leaves on the trees […]
By Political Director Carisa Lopez Texas Freedom Network AUSTIN – On Friday, the U.S. House of Representatives passed the Women’s Health Protection Act. In the face of a historic assault on abortion access […]
In the latest push for Medicaid Expansion in the 12 straggling states, nearly 200 advocacy organizations, representing constituencies across the states that have not expanded Medicaid, sent a letter urging Speaker Nancy Pelosi, […]
By VAL BENAVIDEZ Texas Freedom Network Gov. Greg Abbott just signed Senate Bill 1 into law. After two special legislative sessions dedicated not to the ongoing COVID-19 crisis in our state, but to […]
By BRIANNA BROWN Texas Organizing Project Today’s passage of Senate Bill 1 is a travesty for our state, but our resolve to fight Jim and Jane Crow 2.0 policies remains as strong as […]
By VAL BENAVIDEZ Texas Freedom Network Despite delaying Gov. Greg Abbott’s suppression session for over a month, the Texas House finally reached quorum to pass SB1 out of the floor. In the face […]
By LAQUITA GARCIA Right2Justice Policy SB 6 is built on right-wing hysteria that violates Texans’ rights, not on public safety. If implemented, this bill will lead to more overcrowding in jails and further […]
After months of standing firm against Gov. Abbott’s extremist agenda by denying him a quorum in the House, it’s disheartening that quorum was reached, and that this sham of a second special session has […]
With the more infectious and deadlier Delta variant spreading across the country, and with only half of the U.S. population fully vaccinated, it is a moral imperative that we protect millions of Americans […]
By BRUCE CARTER Despite the reported billions of dollars being available for Small Businesses and organizations with less than 10 employees many applications have not been processed. Nonprofits and qualified businesses in the […]
By RENETTA W. HOWARD IN CINQUE It has come to past that the legislature has once again decided what and what cannot be taught in public schools. It was the legislatures who back […]
By CHARLIE BONNER MOVE Texas On Sunday, Democrats in the Texas Legislature broke quorum to block Senate Bill 7, an egregious attack on the right to vote in Texas, which is already one […]
Texas Democrats are also condemning Gov. Greg Abbott’s latest executive order, which bans local government entities from requiring masks to help slow the spread of COVID-19. Announced Tuesday, the order takes effect Friday […]
Gov. Abbott is shortchanging Texas families On Monday, Gov. Greg Abbott announced that he was opting Texas out of the $300-per-week federal unemployment assistance Congress approved earlier this year. “Gov. Abbott is shortchanging Texas […]
Dear Editor, We know about the outlandish political myths like QAnon, but how about the conventional ones? For example, some maintain Trump’s Congressional supporters are capable of repentance. Doesn’t seem like it. […]
Dear Editor, As a civil rights scholar, I was moved by the recent article regarding Rev. C.T. Vivian, one of our pillars in the movement. It was with great pleasure that I read this […]
To Donald Trump, As parents, students and community organizations deeply invested in America’s public schools, we are mortified by your insistence on forcing children into school building in September with no articulated plan to […]
July 6, 2020 The Honorable Greg Abbott Office of the Governor P.O. Box 12428 Austin, TX 78711-2428 Dear Governor Abbott: Recently, Commissioner of the Texas Education Agency Mike Morath called […]
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