Archive for July 2020

A Call For Reparations: How America Might Narrow The Racial Wealth Gap

The killing of George Floyd has ignited protests and inspired conversations — and changes — across the globe. But New York Times Magazine writer Nikole Hannah-Jones says more needs to be done to address America’s racial wealth gap. “Very few Americans have created all of their wealth on their own; it’s passed down through generations…

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What is Owed

If true justice and equality are ever to be achieved in the United States, the country must finally take seriously what it owes black Americans. Read more at The New York Times.

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Why Joe Biden Has His Eye on Karen Bass

The first time Representative Karen Bass heard Joe Biden talk about the car crash that killed his wife and infant daughter, she dropped into her chair, overwhelmed. Read more at The Atlantic.

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Val Demings should be our next vice president | COMMENTARY

Now that former Vice President Joe Biden has clinched the Democratic presidential nomination, his next big task, save for polishing up his convention speech, is to pick a running mate. Mr. Biden, who emerged from a packed list 12 years ago to join then Illinois Sen. Barack Obama on the ticket, may seek to avoid…

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Inside the Final Days of Joe Biden’s V.P. Choice

Jill Biden got a root canal. Joe Biden got a new job. In the summer of 2008, the then senator answered his cell phone while waiting for his wife in a dentist’s office near their Wilmington, Delaware, home. When the Bidens returned to their car, Joe told Jill, “Barack called, and asked me to be…

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Joe Biden’s Vice President Could Be the Most Powerful in History

If Joe Biden wins in November, his running mate could become the most consequential vice president in modern American history. The woman Biden picks could be seen as a potential president-in-waiting, a signal for the Democratic Party’s agenda in the years to come, and perhaps the most significant player trying to help Biden manage a…

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