Mass shootings have to stop like the one in Charleston. People are dying. Let's stop encouraging hate and hateful symbols and names associated with slavery of an entire population of human beings on this earth.

The State of South Carolina has used the Confederate flag as a symbol of intimidation for the past 150 years. The terrorist attack in Charleston, SC is only the latest racist terror to visit upon the people of that state. The symbol is not one of pride, but of arrogance and terror. The City of Portland and the State of Oregon must show our repugnance at such a blatantly racist symbol.

Combat racism in America by boycotting states that use racist symbols.

The American Slave Culture has been improperly released from slavery. America is a nation that operates with laws, codes, references, referendum and proper legal documentation. Calling the culture Black or African American is out of order. Black is a color, a description, an adjective. It is not a Nationality or culture. It's not a noun (Person, Place or Thing). African American is a United States immigration term for those whites and blacks who come from Africa seeking U.S. citizenship. The American Slave Culture has been struggling since the Civil War, not Black America. African Americans have a country that they can return to. The American Slaves were born on the plantations in the south. They are natural born citizens. American Slaves were America's first born offspring who have been neglected by America. We are all Americans and we are only as strong as our weakest link. Slavery was the foundation and the bedrock to the American economy. The descendants of American Slavery are the crack in the foundation, and we must help the weakest link if our nation is going to be made whole. Sign this petition asking Congress to properly include the American Slave Culture to be included in the U.S. Constitution.

These statues are a form of subliminal and institutional racism and must be removed.

Dylann Roof committed domestic terrorism in the name of the Son's of the Confederacy. He has Confederate Iconography all over his social media accounts. The racist beliefs that Dylann Roof exhibits were birthed out of the his beliefs in confederate principles. This flag no longer has a place in American Society and we as a nation can not move the conversation of racial equality forward with it in place above government buildings anywhere in America.

Symbols of hate have no place in our government. The Confederate flag is not a symbol of southern pride but rather a symbol of rebellion and racism. On the heels of the brutal killing of nine Black people in a South Carolina church by a racist terrorist, it's time to put that symbol of rebellion and racism behind us and move toward healing and a better United States of America!

Symbols of hate have no place in our government. The Confederate flag is not a symbol of southern pride, but rather a symbol of rebellion and racism. In the S.C. Declaration of Causes of Session it clearly states that the reason for leaving the union was over the right to own slaves. It's time to put the symbol of that rebellion behind us and move toward healing and a better United States of America!

To bring awareness on the situation of Dominicans of Haitian Descent and Haitian Migrants in the Dominican Republic who are facing massive deportation without due process.

Everyone deserves the same fair and equal treatment, including lesbian, gay, bisexual and transgender people. "Open to the public" should mean open to everyone, fairly and equally. Unfortunately, in Pennsylvania it is still completely legal to be turned away from a business, fired from a job, or evicted from a home just for being gay or transgender. Polls show that 74% of voters in Pennsylvania agree that no one should be discriminated against for being gay or transgender, and voters agree that there should be a law to protect people from discrimination based on sexual orientation and gender identity. Our state legislature has been considering an update to the nondiscrimination laws to include sexual orientation and gender identity for more than a decade. The time has come to update the nondiscrimination laws of the commonwealth. Sign our petition to the PA State Legislature and tell them to end legal discrimination against gay and transgender people now.

"Call my mama, oh God!" 15-year-old Dajerria Becton cried, as Eric Casebolt, an adult male police officer, forcefully swung her by her arm to the ground. "On your face!" he ordered, slamming her head into the grass face-first. He then pinned her to the ground with his knees—a child, who was crying for her mother. Watching the video of what happened at an end-of-the-year school pool party in McKinney, Texas, and hearing a young teen calling out for her mother to ease her fear and help her be safe, what mother's heart could take it? And Dajerria was not the only incident that day. Officer Casebolt singled out many other black teens for abuse, violently arresting, verbally assaulting and physically attacking a number of African-American young people, and even drawing his gun on teens who tried to intervene on Dajerria’s behalf. A white teen attending the party, who easily videotaped the attack, observed, “Everyone who was getting put on the ground was black, Mexican, Arabic... [The cop] didn’t even look at me. It was kind of like I was invisible.” In an interview, the teen further added, "He [Casebolt] skips over me and tells all my African American friends to go sit down." Officer Casebolt's actions reflect a deeply discriminatory and abusive culture of policing within McKinney law enforcement. Officer Casebolt has resigned, but it's not enough. He, as well as the other officers present that day who stood by and allowed this police violence to take place, must be held accountable.

Gov. Snyder signed into law an Indiana-style adoption RFRA bill that lets adoption agencies discriminate against prospective parents based on their religious beliefs. Tell Gov. Snyder that you won’t stand for tax dollars going toward discrimination.