by Jamie - Editor | Jun 10, 2021 | Better Together
Pride + Juneteenth by Karen Nelson June is LGBTQ Pride Month! Lesbian, Gay, Bisexual, Transgender and Queer Pride Month commemorates the events of June 28, 1969 and works to achieve equal justice and opportunity for LGBTQ+ Americans. Fifty-two years ago, a courageous...
by Jamie - Editor | May 12, 2021 | Better Together
STOP Asian Hate! by Karen Nelson May is Asian American Pacific Islander (AAPI) Heritage Month. What should be a time of celebration, this year has been marred with violence. Like you, I have watched in horror as a rampant increase in violence toward Asian Americans...
by Jamie - Editor | Jan 13, 2021 | Better Together
Happy Birthday, Dr. King! by Karen Nelson By the winter of 1968, Dr. Martin King, Jr. and his organization were embarking on one of their boldest projects yet; a Poor People’s Campaign that would bring a multiracial coalition to the nation’s capital to demand federal...
by Jamie - Editor | Dec 10, 2020 | Better Together
Be Merry! Be Happy! by Karen Nelson 2020 has been quite a year of extraordinary happenings: COVID-19 followed by the summer of social unrest after the brutal killing of George Floyd and many others. As I write this article, 2,649 souls are not with us since January in...
by Jamie - Editor | Nov 10, 2020 | Better Together
VOTE: IT’S THE ECONOMY, STUPID! by Karen Nelson America’s wealthiest are doing well, but what about the rest of us? America is the richest country in the world! Before we celebrate, consider in 2020, the black-white wage gap is as wide as it was in 1950! Recent...
