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Majority Whip Steve Scalise was shot in the hip while practicing for a carity baseball game in Alexandria Virginia on Tuesday.  Four aids were also hit.  Scalise has been figthing for his life in critical condition.  This incident was an act of domestic terrorism and the media is not calling it what it is. The assailant was captured fortunately, as an eye witness said he did not have a target.  This incident has brought the discussion of the right to bear arms back to the forefront. America must stand up to the errors of its past relative to the mindset around gun ownership.  People were killed for sport in the public square during slavery and that is a form of domestic terrorism. SOME DIED BY HANGING, SOME BY GUNFIRE.  ALL WERE MUDERED AS A RESULT OF HATE.  History bears witness to the fact that our nation established the IRRESPONSIBLE GUN culture it is now fighting against to some extent. MORE OFTEN THAN NOT in mass killings large assault weapons i...

buzzz worthy. . . OPINION By Mona Austin In early January a mosque was burned down in Texas, an example of Muslims in America being the targets of hate and danger. Such actions infringe on Muslim citizens' Civil and Human Rights and underscore Trump's isolating  message. In his first week as president Donald J. Trump executed a series of bold and controversial executive orders including aggressive action that introuced "new vetting measures to keep radical Islamic terrorists out of America," he stated at the Pentagon on Frday, adding, "We don't want 'em [sic] here.   The travel ban against 7 Muslim Majority nations -- --that has shaken the international community, especially Muslims who are worried about their loved ones entering the country and being detained at U.S. airports.  But world leader are alarmed too.  Trump worked on a Saturday  taking phone calls from leaders of five countries in one day, presumably to smooth out relati...

By Justin Steele, Principal, Google.org Growing up, Shirah Dedman always hated family tree projects. While other students could trace their roots as far back as the Mayflower, her story always stopped at her great-grandfather. At the age of 32, with the help of researchers at the Equal Justice Initiative, a Google.org grantee, Shirah learned the true story of her great-grandfather's life-and death. Thomas Miles Sr., a black business owner, was lynched in Shreveport, Louisiana in 1912 for allegedly passing a note to a white woman. Fearing for their own lives, his family fled the South, and even changed the spelling of their last name-from Miles to Myles-to distance themselves from the tragedy. It would be decades before his story would come to light and his family could begin to make sense of their traumatic past.  These stories are a difficult part of American history. Thomas Miles Sr. was one of more than 4,000 African Americans lynched in the U.S. between 1877 and ...

Aretha Franklin was overcome with emotion at a street naming event in her honor in her native Detroit this weekend. The street is Aretha Franklin Way. The undisputed Queen of Soul announced she will retire this year.