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Inequality
  • Inequality
    'We' Versus 'Me': Suffrage Centennial Exposes Vote Gap in Black and White Women
    August 25, 2020
    | Errin Haines

    Black women were left in the wilderness for nearly half a century, as White women claimed a suffrage victory and largely abandoned the fight.

  • Inequality
    The "Great" Reopening is Setting America's Schools Up to Fail
    August 24, 2020
    A schoolteacher in Portland, Oregon, shares her thoughts on the Covid crisis and returning to the classroom.
  • Today We Celebrate the 54th Anniversary of the March on Washington
    August 21, 2020 | Updated July 17, 2020 | Moyers & Company
    More than fifty years ago, Rep. John Lewis looked on as President Johnson signed the Voting Rights Act. In this video, he reflects on how the March on Washington led to key civil rights laws.
  • She Votes!
    The Mother of All Celebrations
    August 20, 2020
    | Ellen Goodman and Lynn Sherr
    Our foremothers turned ridicule into respect and oppression into the power of a majority.
  • She Votes!
    Pardon Me?
    August 18, 2020
    This letter from Susan B. Anthony was obtained exclusively by Lynn Sherr and Ellen Goodman, co-hosts of the She Votes! podcast.
  • Inequality
    Iowa’s White Privilege Has a Billion Dollar Price Tag
    August 17, 2020
    | Neil Hamilton

    As Iowans we are privileged in so many ways – with our land, our people and our history, but we should be willing to show some humility in recognizing how these privileges came to be. How different would life be today if freedmen and women had been allowed to take their rightful place as land owning, independent farm families – like so many of our ancestors here in Iowa?

  • For the Record
    Lest We Forget: The Birther Lie
    August 14, 2020
    Donald Trump rode to power on the wings of a dark lie — one of the most malignant and ugly lies in American history. Bill Moyers and four historians on Donald Trump and white supremacy.
  • Environment
    We Have Just One Decade to Turn Back the Worst of Climate Change
    August 7, 2020
    | Peter Goldmark
    Here's how philanthropy can lead the way.
  • Letters From an American
    Gaming the System
    August 4, 2020
    | Heather Cox Richardson
    It is all about the Electoral College now
  • Letters From an American
    The News Today Was Awful… Except When It Wasn’t
    July 31, 2020
    | Heather Cox Richardson
    Today juxtaposed the worst of America and its best.


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