IMPORTANT READS

REMEMBERING JOHN LEWIS--In 1965, as chair of the Student Non-Violent Coordinating Committee (SNCC), 25-year-old John Lewis led 600 protesters on the first march from Selma, Alabama, to Montgomery, to intensify pressure on Congress to pass a federal voting rights law.

NEW GEOGRAPHY-Pessimism is the mood of the day, with 80 percent of Americans saying the country is generally out of control.

RIGHT TO VOTE--The voting rights of hundreds of thousands of former felons in Florida were called into question Thursday after the U.S. Supreme Court allowed a lower court ruling to stand, permitting the state to bar former inmates from voting if they owe court fees or fines. 

DISPARATE DEVASTATION-The novel SARS-CoV-2 has roared through the American landscape leaving physical, emotional, and economic devastation in its wake.

OTHER WORDS-However much half of this country hates the other half now, it’s only going to get worse leading up to November. I don’t look forward to it. 

OTHER WORDS-Six months into the COVID-19 pandemic, the disease is raging anew because corporate-serving public officials rushed to “open the economy,” causing more infections and deaths.