Will the current generation be able to fulfill Dr. Martin Luther King Jr.’s dream of peace and equality? We spoke to the Reverend Lennox Yearwood, founder and CEO of the Hip Hop Caucus, about how new forms of engagement such as “hip hop politics” can help eradicate division and partisanship in the 21st century.
In some minds, the exclusion of Dennis Kucinich and Ron Paul from televised presidential candidates’ debates raises Freedom of Speech questions.
As the Nevada caucuses approached, NBC and Fox didn’t see their White House prospects as strong enough to justify their sharing air time with the front-runners.
Here are links to sites where you can find more about wealth inequality.
www.inequality.org: A web resource dedicated to the topic of wealth inequality.
Economic Policy Institute
National data from The State of Working America 2006/2007: Compare wages and compensation trends, jobs, unionization, family earnings and income trends, and prices throughout the last 50 years.
The most surprising news from the New Hampshire primary may have been how wrong the opinion-poll predictions were. Most gave Democrat Barrack Obama double-digit leads going into Tuesday’s voting. But Hillary Clinton won. Though the polls were right about the Republican contest, pundits were stunned. MSNBC’s Chris Matthews called for an inquiry on polling methodology. A colleague said that in future we should put more trust in the American people and wait for the voters to decide. Matthews said, “But then what will we do?”
With our international attention now focused on Pakistan, here is a re-post of an interview with Pakistani Member of Parliament Tahmina Daultana. We spoke to Tahmina at the “World Forum on the Future of Democracy” in Williamsburg, Va., September 2007. She talks about the prospects for democracy in Pakistan.
The increase in the youth vote boosted the number of Iowans who caucused last night. The Center for Information and Research on Civic Learning and Engagement (CIRCLE) reported 11 percent of eligible Iowans under 30 caucused in 2008, compared with four percent who caucused in 2004. CIRCLE’s research supports Rock the Vote’s Heather Smith’s belief that young men and women are no longer politically apathetic.
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