On Tuesday, February 11, 2015, the state House of Representatives budget panel voted to close the South Carolina State University for two years, leaving students adrift.
So vital was Christianity to the southern defense of slavery that some historians have estimated that ministers penned roughly half of all proslavery literature in the decades after 1830.
Within a matter of months, the U.S. government seems likely to become the only nation in the world still rejecting the 1989 UN Convention on the Rights of the Child.
Older Americans are facing rampant job discrimination. The law enacted in 1967 to protect them has been weakened by the Supreme Court. Congress won’t act. Obama should.
As Americans watch events unfold on their television screens, stereotypical understandings of African Americans too easily shape our understandings of current events.
As you sit comfortably in front of your television before the championship game, take a moment to think about the images of militarism associated with the contest.
"Eleven American cities – Chicago, New Orleans, Detroit, Los Angeles, Jacksonville (Fla.), Miami, Orlando, Omaha, Atlanta, Aurora, IL, and Dallas, account for over 70% of all American gun homicides."
