Feb 26 Watch Case on Police Collecting DNA From Criminals Reaches Supreme Court Case on Police Collecting DNA From Criminals Reaches Supreme Court… Continue watching
Feb 26 Our Past Still Speaks: Re-examining the Voting Rights Act By Ray Suarez President Lyndon Johnson discusses the Voting Rights Act with civil rights leader Martin Luther King Jr. in 1965, the year it was signed into law. Photo by Hulton Archive/Getty Images Let me begin this discussion of the landmark Voting Rights… Continue reading
Feb 26 Watch Fed Chair Bernanke Warns Lawmakers Sequester Could Slow Economic Recovery Fed Chair Bernanke Warns Lawmakers Sequester Could Slow Economic Recovery… Continue watching
Feb 26 The Hidden Lives of Wolves By Terence Burlij From 1990 to 1996, Jim and Jamie Dutcher lived in a tented camp on the edge of Idaho's Sawtooth Wilderness, where they observed and studied the behavior and social hierarchy of a pack of gray wolves, known as… Continue reading
Feb 26 Holmes Dixon Crossed the Altar, Busted Barriers Jane Holmes Dixon was the second woman bishop in the Episcopal Church and served as the Bishop of Washington pro tempore from 2001-2002. In honor of "Makers: Women Who Make America," Ray Suarez remembers a woman who inspired his family. Continue reading
Feb 26 My Friend Who Made History By Judy Woodruff Charlayne Hunter-Gault broke barriers when she arrived to the University of Georgia in 1961. Her strength and fortitude allowed her to thrive on a racially hostile campus would serve her in her future career as an award-winning journalist. Continue reading
Feb 26 How To Lift Half the World Perhaps new forms of advocacy and different types of activists can help us re-frame thinking about inequality from a problem for women to a problem for humans. Continue reading
Feb 26 Guns, Outside Money Factor into Illinois’ Special Primary Jesse Jackson Jr. pleaded guilty to fraud last week. The special primary to fill his congressional seat is scheduled for Feb. 26th. Photo by Chris Maddaloni/CQ Roll Call, taken June 2012. Illinois' 2nd congressional district has seen a lot… Continue reading
Feb 25 Former Surgeon General C. Everett Koop Leaves Legacy on AIDS, Smoking Former Surgeon General C. Everett Koop died on Monday at the age of 96. Photo by AFP/Getty. On Monday afternoon, Dr. Charles Everett Koop, the former surgeon general who delivered straightforward talks on AIDS and smoking, passed away in… Continue reading
Feb 25 Watch Does the White House Use Social Media to Circumvent the Press? Does the White House Use Social Media to Circumvent the Press?… Continue watching