Ten Years Ago DACA Changed My Life
DACA helped me reach my dreams, but temporary protections leave millions in limbo. We need a pathway to citizenship for all.
Anti-Abortion Laws Impact All Kinds of Medical Treatments
Based on my personal experience, I can easily see the ripple effects of lawmakers venturing into territory where they don’t belong.
Nothing Is More Personal Than the Right to Control Your Own Body
Roe doesn’t just protect abortion rights. It’s the keystone that keeps politicians out of the most intimate aspects of our lives.
On The People’s Wish List: A District Attorney With a ‘Testimony’
As voters prepare to elect Shelby County’s prosecutor, folks with pending criminal cases yearn for a little empathy when facing justice.
Legislators Want to Force Women to Have Kids But Refuse To Support Them Past the Womb
It shouldn’t be politics that drives important medical decisions for women’s health.
We Can Combat Attacks on Voting Rights with the For the People Act
Some lawmakers are out of touch with international leaders, the Nobel Peace committee and what it means to be a Democracy. Since losing the November presidential and Congressional races, the…
Six Issues We Expect the Candidates to Address During the First Presidential Debate
It’s imperative the candidates address how they are thinking about how they will ensure voters’ basic needs are met as we continue to live through this pandemic, and beyond.
End the militarization of police and use of force against people, just like Barr wrongly did
There is an urgent threat to civil rights in our country, and the head of the United States Department of Justice, William Barr, is immorally at the center. In the…
Voices of Everday Leaders
An Accounting Problem: Reimagining Racial Healing in the US Fifty-two years after Martin Luther King’s grueling assassination offered the U.S. its opportunity to pursue a route of cheap justice—a facade…
Voices of justice rallying together at SCOTUS, echoing #HomeIsHere
Last week, the Supreme Court heard oral arguments on the termination of DACA to decide to uphold the program, or jeopardize the future of millions of immigrant families. In this…