By Henry A. Giroux | Originally Published at TruthOut July 19, 2015 00:00 | Illustration Credit; Sandra Bland. (Image: Jared Rodriguez / Truthout) (Image: Jared Rodriguez / Truthout On July 9, soon after Sandra Bland, a 28-year-old African-American woman, moved to Texas from Naperville, Illinois, [...]
By Michele Goodwin | Originally Published at Huffington Post. July 17, 2015 11:17 am EDT Updated: July 17, 2015 11:59 am EDT | Photographic Credit; Daniel Acker/Bloomberg. Getty Images Female incarceration is invisible in the U.S., veiled in the broader realities of mass incarceration, hidden and often [...]
Location. Location. Location! What might an art exhibit and a much questioned dehumanization have to do with education or a tone-deaf discrimination? It is the location! The neighborhood in which the exhibit sits is one rarely frequented by gallery-goers. It is Bronzeville. Bronzeville is not the place [...]
White people, why are so many of you so fucking fragile? I recently heard a term used to describe a behavior that at first perplexed me. I had to think about it for a second, and then it clicked home instantly. The behavior I’m referring to [...]
By Tiffanie Drayton | Originally Published at The Frisky. July 10, 2015 | Photographic Credit; An honor guard from the South Carolina Highway patrol removes the Confederate battle flag from the Capitol grounds in Columbia, South Carolina ( AP) The Confederate Flag has been removed from the [...]
History offers enduring lessons, one being that each and every day our past is forgotten. Some of this is accidental, or incremental. Before we can capture a moment it fades from consciousness. Rarely is it debated. And what is seen is often scrubbed clean. Much [...]
By Jeff Bryant | Originally Published at Education Opportunity Network. July 9, 2015 1:27 PM | Photographic Credit; Increasingly, schools like Primitivo Garcia Elementary School, pictured here, suffer underfunding from state and federal sources, affecting the quality of education children receive. | File photo The Kansas City [...]
I sat and I listened, all day long with great interest, and empathy, for what was said. But I too would point out, that when we begin to talk about 'Grace' we really need to evaluate what that really means. Grace is not something that [...]
A mysterious thing happened on the way to the widely projected meltdown of American cities in the last quarter of the 20th century. Instead of collapsing, many of our largest and hardest-hit cities have rebounded and flourished, confounding critics and social scientists alike. Why did these [...]
