Here are the Martin Luther King Jr. words that inspire today's social justice leaders
By Nicole Chavez, CNN
(CNN)More than a half a century has passed since the Rev. Martin Luther King Jr. stood on the steps of the Lincoln Memorial calling for fr ...
Posted Monday, January 17th 2022 at 11:06AM
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How MLK's 13-year-old granddaughter thinks you should spend the holiday
By Maya Eaglin
Many might have first noticed the similarities between her and her grandfather, the civil rights leader Martin Luther King Jr., when she took the stage at the ...
Posted Monday, January 17th 2022 at 10:48AM
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Sen. Mitt Romney says Biden was elected 'to stop the crazy' and argues that voters weren't asking him 'to transform America' insider@insider.com (John L. Dorman)
Sen. Mitt Romney on Sunday said that President Joe Biden was not elected to "transfo ...
Posted Sunday, January 16th 2022 at 6:58PM
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Texas Republicans try (and fail) to justify long voting lines
"If you can wait in line for a covid test," the Texas GOP argued, "you can wait in line to vote." That's an unusually bad argument.
By Steve Benen
In May 2020, the Trump White H ...
Posted Monday, January 10th 2022 at 12:35PM
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Mitch McConnell's Electoral Count Act offer is a poison pill for voting rights
McConnell has spent 30 years making the same arguments against voting rights.
By Hayes Brown, MSNBC Opinion Columnist
The Electoral Count Act, the law governing h ...
Posted Monday, January 10th 2022 at 12:26PM
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Americans point to the best president of the last 40 years in new poll
By Steve Benen
Barack Obama tends to do quite well when scholars rank American presidents, with several surveys from recent years showing the Democrat among the top 10 presi ...
Posted Sunday, January 9th 2022 at 6:00PM
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After an attack like Jan. 6, America's founders rallied to save their democracy
America's founders dealt with "mobbish insurgents" by strengthening the democracy.
By Michael Steele, MSNBC Opinion Columnist
History will not soon forget the ...
Posted Sunday, January 9th 2022 at 5:56PM
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Joe Manchin keeps contradicting himself on the Biden child tax credit
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Sen. Joe Manchin is in the spotlight for holding up key parts of the Democratic agenda.
He's reiterating demands to impos ...
Posted Saturday, January 8th 2022 at 12:56PM
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