by jpitney | Aug 11, 2020 | Civil Rights
Farhat Popal and Christopher Walsh at the George W. Bush Presidential Center: Attacks against Asian Americans and Pacific Islanders grew so bad in the early days of the coronavirus that the Asian Pacific Policy Planning Council launched a website to track them. In...
by jpitney | Aug 6, 2020 | Civil Rights, Civility, Presidency
Daniel Stid: It turns out that Lewis had not come to George W. Bush’s inauguration in 2001 either. But that didn’t keep Bush from going to and offering a heartfelt eulogy at Lewis’s funeral in which the former President noted, “John and I had our...
by jpitney | Jul 26, 2020 | Civil Rights, Disabilities
President George H.W. Bush on signing the Americans with Disabilities Act, 30 years ago today: Our success with this act proves that we are keeping faith with the spirit of our courageous forefathers who wrote in the Declaration of Independence: “We hold these...
by jpitney | Jul 19, 2020 | Civil Rights, Religion
Kim Lawton, John Lewis Extended Interview, Religion and Ethics Newsweekly, January 16, 2004: I’m deeply concerned that many people today fail to recognize that the movement was built on deep-seated religious convictions, and the movement grew out of a sense of faith...
