WASHIGTON, DC — United States Vice President Kamala Harris visited Selma, Alabama on Sunday to commemorate a defining moment in the fight for the right to vote, making her trip as congressional efforts to restore the landmark 1965 Voting Rights Act have faltered. Under a blazing blue sky, Harris took the stage at the foot of the bridge where in 1965 white state troopers attacked Black voting rights marchers attempting to cross. Harris called the site hallowed ground on which people fought for the “most fundamental right of America citizenship: the right to vote”. “Today, we stand on this bridge…
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NASHVILLE, TN — The Links, Incorporated’s Hendersonville Area (TN) Chapter continues to educate women through its service initiative, “Linking Together for Wellness,” a series of webinars designed to address women’s health issues. On Monday, March 14, 7:30 p.m. the chapter will present its third webinar in the series featuring Dr. Tina Covington Gresham, a cardiologist based out of Murfreesboro, Tennessee. The webinar is free and open to the public. The webinar comes off the heels of American Heart Month and into the Women’s Month Celebration. According to the American Heart Association, cardiovascular diseases (CVD) — including coronary heart disease, which…
The Reagan-Udall Foundation for the Food and Drug Administration (FDA Foundation) has elected four new Board members: David C. Fajgenbaum, MD, MBA, MSc, FCPP, University of Pennsylvania; William N. Hait, MD, PhD, Johnson & Johnson; James E.K. Hildreth, MD, PhD, Meharry Medical College and Debra L. Ness, former President of the National Partnership for Women and Families. Dr. David C. Fajgenbaum is an Assistant Professor of Medicine in Translational Medicine & Human Genetics at the University of Pennsylvania, Founding Director of the Center for Cytokine Storm Treatment & Laboratory (CSTL), and Co-Founder/President of the Castleman Disease Collaborative Network (CDCN). He…
If confirmed, Jackson, whose nomination was announced by Joe Biden earlier on Friday, will be the first Black woman on the court. Tucker Carlson said Jackson was nominated “because of how she looks”. He said: “Do you want to live in that country? Most people don’t, of all colors. They think you should be elevated in America based on what you do, on the choices not on how you were born, not on your DNA, because that’s Rwanda.” One columnist called his comments “the perfect distillation of white supremacy”. Biden promised to put a Black woman on the court. Chosen…
New York (CNN Business)McDonald’s and Starbucks are shutting their restaurants and cafes in Russia, and Coca-Cola is suspending its operations there in response to Russia’s invasion of Ukraine. PepsiCo is also pulling some products from the country. The decisions followed pressure from critics and similar moves by other Western companies. On Twitter, people used boycott hashtags to target companies like McDonald’s and PepsiCo that until Tuesday were quiet about their plans for Russia. McDonald’s, PepsiCo and other companies were called out by New York State Comptroller Thomas DiNapoli. Before McDonald’s and PepsiCo made their announcements, DiNapoli emailed a number of…
By Thomas L. Knapp Whenever and wherever too much government power produces bad policy and terrible results, US Senator Elizabeth Warren (D-MA) can be counted upon to pop up with the same proposed solution: More government power and more bad policy. Surely that will fix it. Current case in point: Oil prices. “Putin’s war is causing gas prices to rise,” she tweeted on March 8, “but this is no excuse for large oil companies to pad their bottom line with war-fueled profits. Senate Democrats are watching closely — and already working on a windfall profits tax.” And then, the very next day: “We…
The Supreme Court on Monday refused to block orders by courts in North Carolina and Pennsylvania that threw out the congressional maps enacted by the states’ Republican legislatures and replaced them with maps drawn by the trial courts. The justices’ rulings mean that the states’ 2022 congressional elections will go ahead using the court-drawn maps. But although the justices declined to intervene now, four justices signaled that they believe the court should soon take up the theory at the center of both cases. Proponents of the theory, known as the “independent state legislature” theory, believe that the Constitution gives state…
Washington, D.C. – Leading investor activists from the Free Enterprise Project (FEP) presented a shareholder proposal today that took The Walt Disney Company to task over its race-based employee trainings – trainings that FEP says give cover to the Chinese Communist Party (CCP) and its ongoing human rights atrocities. “Corporate America needs an entire human resources overhaul and there is no better company with which to start than Disney,” said Justin Danhof, Esq., executive vice president of the National Center for Public Policy Research, who presented the proposal at today’s annual meeting of Disney shareholders. “HR departments are largely responsible…
In the Lord’s Prayer, Jesus asks his followers to do democracy. Its first line reads, “Our Father, who art in heaven, hallowed be thy name.” In the ancient world, the name of a person summed up the entire personality and belief system of the individual. God is politically like a father, not a ruler. In the second line, Jesus says that the father’s government in heaven needs to be transferred to earth: “Thy kingdom come on earth, as it is in heaven.” The Bible text points throughout to an earthly government “kingdom” guided by laws like the Ten Commandments or…
BY NICK JUDIN AND ASHTON PITTMAN For the second year in a row, Mississippi House leadership has once again killed an extension of postpartum Medicaid benefits, likely guaranteeing that many low-income people will lose health insurance benefits only two months after giving birth. In February, the Mississippi Senate passed Senate Bill 2033, which would have extended coverage to 12 months if the House had also approved it, in a 46-5 vote. Yesterday, the bill died for the second year in a row, victim to political gamesmanship. Under current state Medicaid provisions, new mothers have access to medical insurance through Medicaid for only…