What if we're thinking about this all wrong. What if now wasn't a time period but a deliberate commitment. In 1719, the first enslaved Africans were brought to the land that would eventually become Mississippi.By 1823, the Mississippi State Legislature had codified its first slave code. Slave codes were laws that made it illegal for five or more enslaved people to gather and they also required written permission before leaving a plantation even if it were to go to church. These were the types of laws and pr ...

As in most years, Nordic countries are at the top of our annual glass-ceiling index. See which place took the crown for the second year in a row https://t.co/iDnilytcb0 ...

This is my favorite failure. Almost 10 years ago, I launched a petition to reduce the ton tax in Luxmbbo. It went nowhere. Nowhere.Not enough signatures, no political traction, honestly a total flop. But when you are an activist, you have to trust the process, right. Look behind the horizon because four years later, even without this petition, the top tax did drop.It dropped because hundreds of conversation followed because the the topic refused to die because we refused to shut up because we insisted becau ...

Feminists believe that men and women are in all important respects equal. But getting people, especially men, to accept that truth and act on it has been the work of centuries. Explore our full list of books on the large, evolving and controversial subject of modern feminism: https://t.co/GGhrAjegHn ...

for civil rights icon Reverend Jesse Jackson is getting underway. The pews are filled with thousands of people, including former Presidents Biden, Obama and Clinton. All three, along with former Vice President Kamala Harris, are set to to deliver remarks as part of this massive celebration of Jackson's life and legacy at the Hope Baptist Church on the south side of Chicago.MSNOW's Maya Eaglin is there with me here in studio, someone who had many late night conversations with jackson charles blow creator of ...

Hi everyone. How are you. >> Okay, I want you guys to imagine your first day of school. Do you guys remember high school.Was it tough. Imagine walking into your first class of the day. The room is dark and the only thing lighting it up are the amounts of computers in the room. And then you slowly realize that every face in the room is male.That was me last year. I was taking an advanced programming class and out of 17 students, only four of us were female. I felt so out of place.I felt like I didn't belong ...

When you're a child, the world feels simple, fair, balanced, equal. At least that's what I used to think. I imagined the world as this big bright place where everyone got treated the same way and where fairness was just well it was obvious. Kids believed that so easily. Maybe because we haven't learned to see the cracks yet. But then as I got older, and yes, I'm only 13, so not that much older, I started noticing things. little things, not big dramatic things that you see in history books, small everyday th ...

We do want to take some time now to honor and remember civil rights icon, the Reverend Jesse Jackson, who died early this morning at the age of 84. A Baptist preacher known for delivering stirring speeches, Jackson was a trailblazer in American politics. A two-time presidential candidate credited with expanding the Democratic coalition and opening the door for future black politicians.He was born in 1941 in Greenville, South Carolina, and became a protetéé of Dr. . Martin Luther King Jr. . In 1968, Jackson ...

Tax systems are more progressive than you think. The big question is whether, in the pursuit of equality, governments are raising levies on the rich so high that they are becoming counter-productive https://t.co/jos8OeAoL8 ...

RT Bishop Robert Barron (@BishopBarron)I was impressed by Secretary of State Marco Rubio's speech at the Munich Security Conference. He indeed addressed a number of particular political issues, but what most grabbed my attention was his stress on the common culture that unites Europe and America. He cited Dante, Shakespeare, the Sistine Chapel, Cologne Cathedral—even the Beatles as expressions of basic cultural intuitions that still inform the West. But he pressed the matter further, insisting, in the spiri ...