As we work to combat racism throughout Bucks County, we would be wise to remember to first look for and combat it in ourselves.
It’s timely and fitting that this year’s theme for Black History Month is “Black Resistance.”
The Bucks County Anti-Racism Coalition is hosting an online reading group for Layla F. Saad’s book “Me and White Supremacy.”
It should come as no surprise that a significant amount of money has been directed to propping up candidates and officials who stand opposed to any efforts at racial reconciliation, racial equity, or even bringing up race in the classroom.
The Mercer Museum has partnered with the PairUP Society, Bucks County Anti-Racism Coalition, NAACP Bucks, and the African American History Museum to bring the first annual Juneteenth celebration to Upper Bucks.
If voting didn’t matter, then there would not be so much time, effort, and money spent to make sure that Black and brown people don’t or can’t do it.
In a new Bucks County Beacon column, Race Matters, Kevin E. Leven examines the meaning of being racist.
Learning more about Black history in February (or any month) is equivalent to getting to know ourselves as a nation and as individuals. Black History is American History.
The judge ruled that rejecting mail ballots for issues with the date on the outer envelope violates voters’ First Amendment rights, since voting is considered an expression of free speech.
“It is inconceivable that after decades of promises and political posturing, Congress has yet to pass a permanent solution for undocumented immigrants who entered the country as children and other undocumented people,” said Make the Road PA’s Armando Jiménez.
“Danny is a battle-tested patriot who represents the best of his generation. Bucks County will be safer with him as our Sheriff,” said former Bucks County Congressman Patrick Murphy.
We need a representative in Congress who engages not in sophistry, but in truth-telling, and one who has the courage to have in-person town halls open to all their constituents, writes Newtown’s Steve Cickay.
Locally, the cuts have already hacked away about one-third of the $800,000 the federal government had been sending to supplement Bucks County Opportunity Council programs like Fresh Connect.
