Dr. Alveda King

To really honor Dr. King

Sheila Liaugminas | 22 January 2013

First, respect the fact that he was the Rev. Dr. Martin Luther King Jr., Reverend first.

What happened to school choice?

Sheila Liaugminas | 30 August 2011

I’m told it’s the political power of unions. Makes me wonder about all the good teachers trapped in a system without the power to express or carry out their own ideas.

Talk about the wounds of racism

Sheila Liaugminas | 16 February 2011

The subject of America’s painful past with slavery is in the news again. Good….we need to have this debate.

The new ‘Freedom Rides’

Sheila Liaugminas | 23 July 2010

What a good time to recall the hard won victory of human dignity over degradation that the civil rights movement struggled for in the South and ultimately, nationwide, in the ’60’s.

Who’s stoking racism?

Sheila Liaugminas | 22 July 2010

In the past two week, racially charged arguments and accusations have been heating up the air waves. Allegations are out there about the Tea Party movement, the New Black Panthers, the NAACP, the Congressional Black Caucus, and certain members of the Obama administration. What’s going on here?