Responses to recent police killings of Black men show just how deep the racial divide is in this country. There is an “us” versus “them” mentality at play....
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28 July 2014
President Lyndon B. Johnson saw education as a critical way out of poverty. On April 11, 1965, he signed into law an often unrecognized but...
30 April 2014
In his first State of the Union address in 1964, Lyndon Johnson declared an “unconditional war on poverty.” Since then, the War on Poverty...
22 January 2014
For about two weeks this January, poverty was recognized as a serious problem in this amazingly rich but unequal country, as we observed the 50th anniversary...