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Healing Divisions: Congresswoman Gwen Moore shares her love for Milwaukee in DNC speech

Posted by Wisconsin Public Radio | Aug 23, 2020 |

U.S. Representative Gwen Moore of Milwaukee used her brief speech on August 17 at the virtual Democratic Convention to sing the praises of her home city and call for unity in America. Congresswoman Moore was the first elected official to speak during the main program at the DNC, which was originally planned for Milwaukee before it was switched to a mostly virtual format because of the ongoing COVID-19 pandemic. “I sure wish you all were here in the city of Milwaukee,” said Congresswoman Moore. “This is a city where blood was shed for labor rights. Where a fugitive slave...

When America catches a cold, Blacks gets pneumonia: The impact of an uneven economic playing field

Posted by Reggie Jackson | Aug 21, 2020 |

“The U.S. economy must undergo a fundamental change if it is to retain a measure of economic viability let alone leadership in the remaining 20 years of this century. The goal must be nothing less than the reindustrialization of America.” – Business Week, June 30, 1980 This warning about the U.S. economy from Business Week came nearly forty years after something monumental happened to Black workers in the Mississippi Delta and other parts of the South. On a hot October day in 1944 a mechanized cotton picker was put on display for the first time. For a majority of...

Keynote Speech: Kamala Harris at the 2020 Democratic National Convention

Posted by Correspondent | Aug 21, 2020 |

Full remarks by Vice Presidential Nominee Kamala Harris as prepared for delivery from night three of the 2020 Democratic National Convention, August 19. Greetings America. It is truly an honor to be speaking with you. That I am here tonight is a testament to the dedication of generations before me. Women and men who believed so fiercely in the promise of equality, liberty, and justice for all. This week marks the 100th anniversary of the passage of the 19th amendment. And we celebrate the women who fought for that right. Yet so many of the Black women who helped...

Keynote Speech: Barack Obama at the 2020 Democratic National Convention

Posted by Correspondent | Aug 20, 2020 |

Former President of the United States Barack Obama’s full remarks as prepared for delivery from night three of the 2020 Democratic National Convention, August 19. Good evening, everybody. As you’ve seen by now, this isn’t a normal convention. It’s not a normal time. So tonight, I want to talk as plainly as I can about the stakes in this election. Because what we do these next 76 days will echo through generations to come. I’m in Philadelphia, where our Constitution was drafted and signed. It wasn’t a perfect document. It allowed for the inhumanity of slavery and failed to...

Keynote Speech: Hillary Rodham Clinton at the 2020 Democratic National Convention

Posted by Correspondent | Aug 20, 2020 |

Former Secretary of State Hillary Rodham Clinton’s full remarks as prepared for delivery from night three of the 2020 Democratic National Convention, August 19. Good evening. After the last election, I said, “We owe Donald Trump an open mind and the chance to lead.” I really meant it. Every president deserves that. And Trump walked into the Oval Office with so much set up for him: A strong economy. Plans for managing crises—like a pandemic. Yes, we Democrats would have disagreed with him on many, many things. But if he had put his own interests and ego aside—if he...

American Totalitarianism: How the legal infrastructure of fascism was constructed

Posted by Citizen Truth | Aug 19, 2020

The debate over whether Donald Trump is a fascist is no longer confined to a narrow segment of the far left. It is now out in the open. Even mainstream columnists like the Michelle Goldberg of the New York Times, Ishaan Tharoor of the Washington Post, and influential Democratic politicians, such as Oregon Senator Ron Wyden, have come to use the “F” word to describe our 45th commander in chief. Although it is an emotionally loaded and often misused term, fascism is as real today as a political and cultural force, a set of core beliefs and a mode...