Community
A Double Tragedy
Former Dallas Police officer Amber Guyger was convicted of murder and sentenced to prison in Dallas County in the last weeks. Guyger claimed she was in fear for her life when she entered Botham Jean’s […]
Year: 2019
Women
It’s Time To Pass the Equal Rights Amendment
This is my favorite saying right now. I believe it sums up the Equal Rights Amendment very succinctly. Ensuring equal rights for everyone, regardless of sex, doesn’t take anything away from anyone else. It’s not […]
Community
Tarrant County DA Office Reluctance to Change
Texas and the United States have recently made giant leaps in progressive prosecutorial reforms in our criminal justice system. Reforms and initiatives that were once thought impossible, even as recently as a decade ago, are […]
Community
THE AMORAL MAJORITY
There’s a social and moral issue that I like many others are having a hard time comprehending. Considering that the United States of America is a nation who professes to be “One Nation under God” […]
Environment
Texas Legislature is Against Your Right to Protest
Texas State Legislature passed a law that makes it a felony to protest against a pipeline even it is passing through your private land. House Bill 3557 criminalizes damage to so-called critical infrastructure facilities, including […]
Politics
Tarrant County is the key to Win Texas
Elections 2020 is expected to restore American moral leadership of free world. We are almost seventeen months away from inauguration of a new President. Campaigns are starting to heat up, though Labor Day typically starts […]
Environment
All the lions in Africa and All the Tigers in India are dead
How much do you want to see those headlines in the news, wherever you get your news? In a report issued by the United Nations supported, Intergovernmental Science-Policy Platform on Biodiversity and Ecosystem Services (IPBES) […]
Justice
JUNETEENTH FOR A NEW GENERATION
“When Texas united her destiny to the United States, she entered not into the North or the South, but the Union. The Constitution should be the guiding star of our career as a state.” Sam […]
Women
Celebrating a Century of Women’s Right to Vote
This month holds the centennial celebration of the passage in the senate of the 19th amendment, allowing women to vote. While this was not the final battle fought by women to gain the vote, it […]
Community
Assault on Women’s Reproductive Rights
As a woman, I find the increasing, unrelenting assault on women’s reproductive rights infuriating. Especially the assault on abortion. Why the focus on this one issue? What are the anti-abortion proponents really after? I’m certain […]