Posts Tagged ‘African-Americans’

Beyond good and evil: Blacks, ethics and the health care system

“If we want our study samples to be broadly representative, then we should make every effort to make our institutions equally representative by increasing the presence of minority clinicians, scientists and members of research teams and institutional review boards. If we want minority communities...

June 25th, 2010 | Featured, Health | Read More

When things unsaid, say a lot

By Monise Seward “Negroes have no control over their education and have little voice in their other affairs pertaining thereto…The education of the Negroes, then, the most important thing in the uplift, of the Negroes, is almost entirely in the hands of those who have enslaved them and now segregate...

June 24th, 2010 | African Americans, Education, Featured, Racial Equity | Read More

Back to the future in education reform

Back in the day, schoolchildren celebrated the end of the school year by singing, “No more pencils. No more books. No more teachers’ dirty looks.” With states and cities threatening layoffs, teachers may soon be giving their principals dirty looks. The teachers unions and their congressional allies...

June 14th, 2010 | African Americans, Featured, Racial Equity | Read More

Class of 2010: A single mother’s reflection on race and education

It’s graduation season. All the grades will soon be in. College acceptance and rejection letters have arrived, and after a year or more of test prep classes, SATs, recommendation letters, financial aid documents, and dozens of college applications and essays, many families can breathe again. While...

June 9th, 2010 | Education | Read More

For Obama, touring MLK Street would be “the right thing to do”

Drive through the heart of any African American community and you will find a street, avenue, or boulevard named in honor of Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr. Very often, these thoroughfares were once thriving and vibrant corridors of black culture and commerce. Today, typically, they are filled with shuttered...

May 19th, 2010 | Featured, Racial Equity | Read More

Another one bites the dust: The GOP’s latest moderate defection

You have to admire a man of principle. That is exactly what former Moderate Republican Governor Charlie Crist wants us to know about him as he made the announcement two weeks ago that he was no longer going to run for the U.S. Senate as a Republican but as an Independent. Forget about the snickering,...

May 10th, 2010 | Politics | Read More

NAACP, Wells Fargo and a Banker’s Heart

Outside of Bank of America’s former headquarters in San Francisco, there is a sculpture that locals have dubbed a “banker’s heart.” The NAACP has come under fire for its “partnership” with cold-hearted Wells Fargo, which is being sued by states and municipalities for discriminatory and predatory...

May 4th, 2010 | African Americans, Economics, Housing, Racial Equity | Read More

Historicizing the Black Panther Party’s call to action (Part 1)

By Ryan Kirkby, Ph.D. Candidate in the Department of History, University of Waterloo Who were the Black Panthers, and what has their legacy amounted to? Most people can probably name the group’s Minister of Defense, Huey P. Newton; its Chairman, Bobby Seale; or its dynamic Minister of Information,...

April 26th, 2010 | African Americans, Featured | Read More

Transgender community in New Orleans speaks out against abuse and discrimination by police

New Orleans’ Black and transgender community members and advocates complain of rampant and systemic harassment and discrimination from the city’s police force, including sexual violence and arrest without cause. Activists hope that public outrage at recent revelations of widespread police violence...

April 21st, 2010 | African Americans, Featured | Read More

Her gifts made room for us: The visionary pragmatism of Dr. Dorothy Height

In the days to come, many moving and well-deserved tributes will be written to Dr. Dorothy Height, Civil Rights pioneer and women’s rights advocate. There are many people who can do Dr. Height’s life more justice than I can, and I hope they will. But as a scholar who works on Black women’s intellectual...

April 21st, 2010 | African Americans, Featured | Read More

Black leaders must seize the moment

The National Action Network held its 12th annual convention last week in New York City. I attended the first day, but missed the black leadership forum, “Measuring the Movement.” Broadcast live on TV One, the forum was “designed to determine and commit to significant and measurable goals that...

April 20th, 2010 | African Americans, Economics, Featured, Racial Equity | Read More

Administration must acknowledge and address the growing crisis in the Black community

Heaster Wheeler, Executive Director of the Detroit Branch of the NAACP, also contributed to this article. The recent employment figures released by the Bureau of Labor Statistics indicate that Black unemployment is on the rise again (returning to 16.5%). These figures remind us that the persistent economic...

April 16th, 2010 | Featured, Racial Equity | Read More

Race, redemption, and respectability: White racism in athletics

From our friends at Racism Review. By C. Richard King, co-authored with David J. Leonard The ongoing media fascination with Tiger Woods and his personal transgressions should remind us of what a prominent place race, redemption, and respectability play in sport today. Like Michael Jordan, Woods’...

April 15th, 2010 | Featured, Talk About Race | Read More

Tea with mephistopheles

A few weeks ago I read an article in the Sunday (NY) Times about the new scope and focus of right-to-life organizations around the country. The benefactors of these good works and services are a group both familiar and dear to me~young African-American women. Imagine this… A local college or university...

April 12th, 2010 | African Americans, Featured | Read More