In this episode of our podcast The Signal, Editor Cyril Mychalejko speaks with Temple University Professor Ralph Young about the history of progressive dissent in the United States.
For Black people, the modern-day meaning of the word has little to do with school curriculum or political jargon and goes back to the days of Jim Crow and legal, often violent, racial segregation.
Editor Cyril Mychalejko speaks with Rann about his book “Resistance Stories from Black History for Kids” and about why we are seeing a war being waged against Black History being taught in K-12 public schools and in colleges and universities across the country.
More than ever, we need to protect our schools, libraries, and kids from censors and book banners. Our country will be better for it.
Today’s Republican extremists are (perhaps unwittingly) influenced by a wannabe Christian Nationalist demagogue from the 1940s.
Confederate monuments were part of a relentless propaganda campaign to restore the South’s reputation and are symbols of the violent backlash against Black citizenship by white Southerners.
The Quakerism that transformed Penn’s life in his early 20s, and that he spent the rest of his life serving and promoting, was profoundly hostile to expressions of human vanity.
“I am honored to live in such a place where history isn’t necessarily confined to our textbooks but is instead woven into our community,” says Burns.
The Indigenous Peoples Thanksgiving Sunrise Gathering gives people the chance to bring greater community awareness to current struggles facing Indigenous people across the globe.
Ehasz’s unwavering support for teachers and public education was highlighted in contrast to Republican incumbent Brian Fitzpatrick’s support for extremist Moms for Liberty-backed school board candidates.
Advocates for the unhoused in Bucks County weigh in on what this decision could mean for our most vulnerable community members.
The new federal standards demonstrate that the Biden administration takes clean water seriously and will continue to take necessary action to stop chemical manufacturers from endangering our most vulnerable residents.
“Keeping people in poverty is not how we move the Commonwealth forward – our current wage is immoral and unjustifiable,” said the Philadelphia County lawmaker.
Donald Trump and House Speaker Mike Johnson are fear-mongering over noncitizen voting, which is among the oldest tactics in American electoral politics.
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