On Tuesday in the Florida Democratic primary race for Governor, relative unknown Andrew Gillum, a 39-year old African-American, defeated a host of more experienced Democratic candidates to claim the Democratic nomination.
Gillum has been called a Bernie Sanders Democrat, meaning he hails from the progressive left-wing of the Democratic Party.… Continue Reading
By now most of New York City knows the story of Aaron Schlossberg, the Manhattan attorney who got into an argument with cashiers at a restaurant after demanding they speak English. Schlossberg threatened to call Immigration and Customs Enforcement on the Hispanic workers so he could have them “kicked out of my country.”… Continue Reading
OK, so they estimate that about a billion people watched the Oscars telecast tonight. And there were a lot of storylines leading up to the ceremony. There were the sexual harassment scandals and the #MeToo movement, the success of the all-black production of Black Panther and the call for more inclusion, the backdrop of the #OscarsSoWhite movement from 2015, and the underlying horror of the Trump Administration’s attempts to reverse 50 years of racial, social and economic progress.… Continue Reading