HISTORY Revisiting the Kerner Commission Report THERESA RILEY | DECEMBER 7, 2014 The 1968 reports stark conclusion was that our nation is moving towards two societies: one white, one black -- separate and unequal. MORE Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr. marches in a line of men with arms linked during the March on Washington. August 1963. (AP Photo) JUSTICE The Civil Rights Movement Came Out of a Moment Like This One DANI MCCLAIN | THE NATION | DECEMBER 7, 2014 If history is any guide, the protests against police brutality are just getting started. MORE Xiuhtezcatl Martinez, 14, is on a crusade to stop climate change. (Photo: Xiuhtezcatl Martinez) ACTIVISM The 14-Year-Old Voice of the Climate Change Generation JORDAN MCCURDY | IN THESE TIMES | DECEMBER 5, 2014 When other kids were experiencing the travails of first grade, 6-year-old Xiuhtezcatl Martinez was concerned about threats to the world’s ecosystem. MORE Young women attend a candlelight vigil for victims of gun violence Friday, Oct. 10, 2014, in Ferguson, Missouri. (AP Photo/Charles Rex Arbogast) PERSPECTIVES Cosby and Ferguson: Why Addressing Gender Violence and Racial Violence Is Not Either/Or Option ANDREA CAMBRON | THE AMERICAN PROSPECT | DECEMBER 5, 2014 Why would you believe the accounts given by eyewitnesses to Michael Brown’s slaying, but not believe the testimony of many women who say they were raped in the same way by the same man? MORE Protesters rallying against a grand jurys decision not to indict the police officer involved in the death of Eric Garner sing as they carry a collection of mock coffins bearing the names of victims of fatal police encounters at the intersection of Flatbush Avenue and Atlantic Avenue near the Barclays Center, Thursday, Dec. 4, 2014, in the Brooklyn borough of New York. A grand jury cleared a white New York City police officer Wednesday in the videotaped chokehold death of Garner, an unarmed black man, who had been stopped on suspicion of selling loose, untaxed cigarettes. (AP Photo/Jason DeCrow) JUSTICE Eric Garner Protests Continue for a Second Night Across US KARIN KAMP | DECEMBER 5, 2014 Protesters spilled into the streets of New York and other cities over the past two nights. The NYPD arrested 223 in clashes. MORE Inmates gather next to Maricopa County Sheriff Joe Arpaio as he walks through a Maricopa County Sheriffs Office jail called Tent City in Phoenix on Saturday, June 23, 2012 during a tour for church leaders. Critics of Arpaio gathered outside the facility Saturday for a rally to call for the closure of the complex of canvas jail tents. (AP Photo/Matt York) NEWS & NOTES Morning Reads: Shocking, Systemic Brutality in Cleveland PD; Joe Arpaio in Contempt? DECEMBER 5, 2014 A roundup of some of the stories were reading at Moyers & Company HQ... MORE A rig pumps oil in the unincorporated Windsor Hills area of Los Angeles adjacent to homes Friday, Feb. 12, 2010. (AP Photo/Reed Saxon) ENVIRONMENT Dirty Fuels Dirty Tricks JOHN LIGHT | DECEMBER 4, 2014 The fossil fuel industry is backing a network of astroturf organizations trying to derail green initiatives in five Western states. MORE House Budget Committee Chairman Rep. Paul Ryan (R-WI) laughs as he walks to his office on Capitol Hill in Washington, Friday, Oct. 11, 2013. (AP Photo/ Evan Vucci) DEMOCRACY & GOVERNMENT How the GOP Plans to Rig Congress to Embrace Trickle-Down Voodoo Economics JOSHUA HOLLAND | DECEMBER 4, 2014 Paul Ryans reality-based math doesnt add up. MORE Members of a tenants organization in East Harlem gather outside the office of landlord developer Dawnay, Day Group, as lawyers attempt to serve the company with court papers on behalf of tenants, during a press conference in New York, in this Friday Oct. 19, 2007. The tenants group, Movement for Justice in El Barrio, filed suit against Dawnay, Day Group, the London-based investment corporation for harassing tenants by falsely and illegally charging fees in attempts to push immigrant families from their homes and gentrify the neighborhood, said Chaumtoli Huq, an attorney for the tenants. (AP Photos/Bebeto Matthews) INEQUALITY Is Gentrification Inevitable? YANA KUNICHOFF | IN THESE TIMES | DECEMBER 4, 2014 A discussion with activists, a professor and a local resident on the effect of gentrification and what could be done to protect vulnerable communities. MORE money MONEY & POLITICS
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