“While mass demonstrations against the government have rocked Hong Kong for months, protests in Iraq and Lebanon have unseated respective governments. People in Barcelona, Haiti, and Chile have also taken to the streets with their demands. Vali Nasr, a former State Department advisor and professor at Johns Hopkins School of Advanced International Studies joins Hari…
“Teachers in Chicago are heading back to school Friday, marking the end of a historic eleven-day strike that had shut down the nation’s third-largest school district. After weeks of tense negotiations, the city agreed to reduce class sizes, increase salaries by 16 percent over the next 5 years and bring on hundreds more social workers,…
Uduak-Joe Ntuk represents Uptown Long Beach on the Long Beach Community College Board of Trustees. Elected in 2018, he is the first African-American man elected to serve since the college’s founding. For Ntuk, education is the great equalizer. It can provide anyone with the tools to create their own future. That outlook was formed by…
“The first Black woman elected to serve as a judge in Louisiana’s 16th Judicial District has come under fire for speaking out against racial injustice. Last month, the 16th Judicial District Attorney’s Office in New Iberia, La., began requesting that Lori Landry be recused from pending criminal cases on the grounds that she “is biased…
“According to new data from U.S. Customs and Border Protection, over 850,000 migrants were detained at the U.S.-Mexico border in fiscal 2019. The figure is more than double the previous year’s total, and it includes a record number of unaccompanied migrant children — many more than previously understood. Amna Nawaz joins Judy Woodruff to discuss…
“The new documentary “Decade of Fire” looks back at the history of a crisis that unfolded in New York City in the 1970s, when the South Bronx faced a near-constant barrage of fires that displaced almost a quarter-million people and devastated an entire community. Co-directors and producers Vivian Vázquez Irizarry and Gretchen Hildebran tell the…
Shirley Huling is the final candidate interviewed by PalacioMagazine.com in advance of the special election on November 5, 2020. The election is a winner-take-all bid to fill the vacant Long Beach City Council seat for the First District. There are eight candidates vying for that spot. Shirley Huling wonders aloud why anyone would run for…
“The funeral for Rep. Elijah Cummings was held on Friday at New Psalmist Baptist Church in Baltimore. Two former presidents, congressional colleagues and thousands of residents of his beloved Baltimore were there. Rep. Cummings’ wife, Maya Rockeymore Cummings shared her warm thoughts of her husband and President Barack Obama delivered the eulogy.” Watch #RolandMartinUnfiltered https://youtu.be/O-Qp2IOpewI
“Miami is one of the worst cities in the U.S. to live in when it comes to affordable housing, and residents pay among the highest share of their incomes on rent. But a recent plan endorsed by the city would pave the way for creating 12,000 affordable housing units by 2024. Special correspondent Alicia Menendez…
“In a Democracy Now! special report, we look at the rise in homelessness in many major cities across the United States. California has become the poster-child for this economic and humanitarian disaster, with growing encampments in Los Angeles and the Bay Area as more people are forced onto the streets. The state is home to…