Brian Gilmore
Poet Brian Gilmore is a public interest lawyer and law professor; his latest book is We Didn’t Know Any Gangsters. He can be reached at pmproj@progressive.org.
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Views Wednesday, January 13, 2016 Flint's Water Crisis Flows From A Much Bigger Problem There is something terribly disturbing about the contaminated water crisis in Flint, Michigan. When state leaders can’t even deliver basic services such as safe drinking water, they have failed. The background to the tragic situation in Flint is an austerity politics that seeks to cut back basic... Read more |
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Views Saturday, February 21, 2015 Malcolm X as Relevant Today as 50 Years Ago Fifty years ago, on Feb. 21, 1965, Malcolm X was brutally murdered in New York City. With his assassination, the United States missed a chance to fully address some of the racial issues that persist to this day. He was born Malcolm Little on May 19, 1925, in Omaha, Neb. He was raised mostly in... Read more |