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Cavemen Keep Sexism Alive

Women serve in almost every high-powered job in the United States: CEOs of Fortune 500 companies, Senators, university presidents, race car drivers and even...

Take a Recess from Closing Public Schools

Chicago Public Schools CEO Barbara Byrd-Bennett has announced plans to close at least 50 schools as a cost-cutting measure. But before any other urban...

Obama’s Troubles Aren’t Comparable to ‘Watergate’

The Obama administration deserves to be richly criticized for surreptitiously obtaining the telephone records of reporters for the Associated Press, especially for bypassing court...

Cleveland’s Charles Ramsey: Hood or Hero?

When some of us saw the first video of Charles Ramsey, the colorful Black dishwasher in Cleveland who is being celebrated as a hero...

South Africa’s Best Kept Secret

JOHANNESBURG, South Africa – When Nelson Mandela and his African National Congress comrades were plotting to overthrow the White minority-rule apartheid regime in South...

Remembering How Black South Africans Won Their Freedom

A trip to South Africa provides painful reminders of the protracted struggle to establish democracy, how the United States propped up the White minority-rule...

The Boston Marathon’s Media Frenzy

I am a certified news junkie, but even I had to step away from the oversaturated media coverage of the Boston Marathon bombings. Anyone...

Political Maneuvering Over the Budget

There has been much discussion about the big picture items in President Obama’s proposed budget for fiscal 2014. If the devil is in the...

Supreme Court Determined to Kill Affirmative Action

A decade after carefully ruling in two University of Michigan cases – striking down the undergraduate admissions procedures and upholding those implemented by the...

Can March on Washington’s Unity be Duplicated?

In five months, we will celebrate the 50th anniversary of the March on Washington. In 1963, the March was jointly called by the Civil...

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