By Jon Wolfe NASHVILLE, TN — According to Joshua Graham Lynn, cofounder of the anticorruption organization RepresentUs, the group’s Unrig the System Summit in Nashville was a big-tent, non-partisan event. Over two thousand came from across the U.S. to America’s largest democracy reform conference to learn, network and be inspired by numerous political activists, reform groups and concerned citizens gathering to fight what they say is the root-cause of political gridlock and injustice in America: big money and corruption. Lynn says this political system serves corruption more than the American people who pay for it. The March 29-31 summit included…
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By Jon Wolfe and Clint Confehr WEST END — Protests continue against White House orders as demonstrators near offices of Sens. Bob Corker and Lamar Alexander on Sunday chanted slogans for immigrants and against a Mexican border wall. “No ban, no wall; come for one, come for all,” was shouted by organizers, including Bobbi Lynn Negron, who said she jumped on a car to avoid being hit while serving as a crossing guard. Police call the driver a victim; protestors “pounded” his windows. A day later, Corinthian Missionary Baptist Church Pastor Enoch Fuzz said he’s “concerned about protestors not using…
NASHVILLE, TN — As a Lincoln University student tutor, Shawn Joseph met an 11th grader from Philadelphia unable to read. “I couldn’t understand how in America, we couldn’t allow any child, not to be able to read, especially an African American boy. So I walked into my junior year and totally switched my major from Biology to English Education.“ The first in his family to graduate from high school, Joseph changed his career choice from doctor to educator. “I came from a house where there was lots of love, but there wasn’t push. It wasn’t until I got to Lincoln…