This year marks the 47th anniversary of the Selma to Montgomery Civil Rights march. The 50-mile trek along what is now known as the Voting Rights Trail marked an important moment in the civil rights movement and led to the Voting Rights Act of 1965. Nearly five decades later, civil rights and community leaders from around the country have once again joined in Selma, Alabama. And in addition to...
The following article by Joel Rogers was originally posted at Policymic.com and can be found here. In a recent article, noted CNN foreign affairs pundit Fareed Zakaria states that Mitt Romney’s comment that he does not care about the very poor was consistent with the general American sentiment. According to Zakaria, “We don’t – none of us...
Is this still the land of the free and the home of the brave, or do we now live in a country that tears families apart and drives children from public schools? These are the questions – though on a more local scale – explored in the short film series “Is This Alabama” by Hollywood director Chris Weitz. Over the course of four videos, men and women in Alabama talk about...
My upbringing wasn’t the most stable of environments. I bounced around a lot, often to less than glamorous neighborhoods. My family wasn’t a traditional, nuclear or even agreeable one at times. And many of my childhood friends have gone down unfortunate paths. Yet, despite all of this, I graduated from a prestigious high school in Cleveland, Ohio...
