by The 19th News | Aug 19, 2023 | Fact Heroes
Republished with permission from The 19th, by Amanda Becker Early Friday morning, Heather Ryan and her niece got in the car and drove for about an hour to Menlo, Iowa. Their destination was a rock painted by Republican state lawmaker Ray “Bubba” Sorensen as part of a...
by John Pavlovitz | Aug 9, 2023 | Fact Heroes
Republished with permission from John Pavlovitz. Sinéad O’Connor was right. In 1992, at the absolute zenith of her career, the Irish singer stood in front of a camera and an audience of millions on Saturday Night Live and delivered a defiantly radiant rendition of Bob...
by Anne Borden King | Jul 27, 2023 | Fact Heroes
“I am a Bishop of the Genesis 2 Church and you are harassing me. This is a sovereign church right here. … We’ve written the President. Jesus Christ is Lord and he is going to come back and he is going to save us from this evil empire!” So shouted Jonathan Grenon to...
by Common Dreams | Jul 1, 2023 | Fact Heroes
Republished with permission from Common Dreams, by Abby Zimet In his “ultimate exoneration,” Yusef Salaam, one of the once-vilified Central Park Five black and brown teenage boys falsely charged with raping a woman jogger in 1989, has evidently won a key...
by Common Dreams | Jun 17, 2023 | Fact Heroes
Daniel Ellsberg, the military analyst-turned-peace activist who revealed that the U.S. government had been lying about its devastating war on Vietnam, died Friday, four months after he was diagnosed with pancreatic cancer. He was 92. Ellsberg (1931-2023) was best...
by Florida Phoenix | May 29, 2023 | Fact Heroes
Four score and seven years ago our fathers brought forth, upon this continent, a new nation, conceived in liberty, and dedicated to the proposition that “all men are created equal.” Now we are engaged in a great civil war, testing whether that nation, or any nation so...