“Almost nine months. That’s how long the state of Illinois has been operating without a budget. For many agencies that […]
Archive for March, 2016
“Bowing to widespread opposition from coastal towns, the Obama administration announced Tuesday that it won’t open the US Atlantic seaboard to offshore oil exploration, but will still allow some leases off Alaska.”
“It’s an incredible day for the Southeast,” said Sierra Weaver, head of the Coast and Wetlands Program at the Southern […]
Teaching For Social Justice
For me, social justice isn’t a concept, something we teach; it’s a practice, something we do. When a student like […]
Obama just quietly signed a major anti-slavery bill!
Fishing is a huge industry in Thailand — worth roughly $7 billion in exports every year — with people in […]
Chicago retains its dubious title as one of the nation’s most segregated cities
A century after the start of the Great Migration and 50 years after the Kerner Commission Report declared “our nation […]