Congressional Republicans and Democrats need to compromise to pass needed legislation to address the crisis of systemic racism and racist policing that has sparked protests around the nation. A month after a white Minneapolis police officer brutally murdered George Floyd – a handcuffed black man who was not resisting arrest – the Democratic-controlled House and Republican-controlled Senate are poised […]

The coronavirus and the George Floyd killing showed that letting problems fester makes them much worse. Let’s not do the same with distance learning. When historians look back at 2020, they might see some important lessons about how problems become really big problems when left to fester.  First, COVID-19 shut down the American economy and […]

Transparency! Accountability! Aren’t these virtues among the very least we should expect from the police in our country? In the wake of the murders of George Floyd, Breonna Taylor, Ahmaud Arbery and so many other African-American men and women by current and former police, Democratic leaders in Washington Monday unveiled the Justice in Policing Act. To protect the safety and rights of all Americans, […]

Just a week ago, newspapers all across our country listed the names on their front pages of thousands of Americans killed by COVID-19. More than 100,000 Americans have perished from the coronavirus. And, as I have repeatedly pointed out, nearly 23 percent of these deaths are African-Americans, even though we black people make up only 13 percent of the U.S. population. WHEN […]