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Year: 2022

The relocation of migrants by Republican governors recalls painful memories of the ‘Reverse Freedom Rides’

By Emma Tucker, CNN The relocation of about 50 migrants from Texas to Martha’s Vineyard in Massachusetts, initiated this week by Florida’s governor, has revived memories of strikingly similar tactics employed by southern segregationists 60 years ago. In 1962, a group of conservatives, intent on retaliating against desegregation efforts during the civil rights movement, funded

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NYC mayor says migrant issue is a ‘humanitarian crisis’ requiring ‘all-hands-on-deck’ coordination from the US

CNN By Artemis Moshtaghian, CNN New York City Mayor Eric Adams said Sunday that the current migrant situation is a “humanitarian crisis created by human hands” that requires “an all-hands-on-deck moment” of coordination by the US. “We should be clear that this is, as I’ve stated, a humanitarian crisis created by human hands. And it

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‘We need solutions and not theater’: Democrats slam moves by GOP governors on migrants

By Artemis Moshtaghian and Devan Cole, CNN Several prominent Democrats on Sunday slammed recent moves by Republican governors to send migrants from the southern border to northern liberal enclaves to protest what they say are inadequate federal efforts on southern border security. “We should not be really treating other cities and municipalities in the manner

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House Oversight panel has begun receiving Trump financial documents after court settlement

By Annie Grayer, CNN The House Oversight Committee has begun receiving financial documents from former President Donald Trump’s former accounting firm, Mazars, after a deal was reached to end litigation over the documents earlier this month. The committee first subpoenaed Trump’s financial records in April 2019, which set off a long battle over the documents.

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‘The U.S. and the Holocaust’ connects a complex history to the present

Review by Brian Lowry, CNN Adding to Ken Burns’ legacy of classy historical fare for PBS, “The U.S. and the Holocaust” is documentary filmmaking with a purpose, a three-night production that directly links undercurrents of American society that influenced the decades featured to lingering strains of White supremacy and anti-Semitism. It’s fascinating as history, but

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