Given the current political climate surrounding discrimination against transgender individuals, we would be remiss not to discuss the impact of Brown v. Board of Education in context. Brown stands as a monumental step forward for equal rights in the 1950s. One would have thought that with the passage of Brown […]
The DNC Party Must Change To Win In 2018-Or Stay Side-lined As The Obstructionist Party
Last night CNN hosted the DNC Chair debate with eight potential candidates. The likely front-runners, Keith Ellison and Tom Perez put on a lackluster performance that based on Twitter discussions, neither convinced the DNC voters or the Twitter audience that they would be the right choice to lead the DNC […]
Are Student Loan Debts The New Economic Ebola
For millions of Americans, having student loan debt is the economic equivalent of the deadly “ebola” virus. It is silently killing economic freedom and spending power for many, rendering graduates unable to move out of their parents’ basement or shed the stigma of a room-mate. The symptomatic maladies of living […]
How Affirmative Action Has Been A Disastrous Experiment For Blacks
PART I Since the inception in the 1940’s of Affirmative Action in the United States, during the apex of the Civil Rights Movement, many US administrations, beginning with John F. Kennedy and climaxing with Lyndon B. Johnson, proposed and instituted a series of laws, practices, and policies to aid in […]
How Trump’s Immigration Ban Might Have Spurred States To Finally Act Alone on Immigration Reform
On January 31, 2017, President Trump issued an Executive Order, banning individuals from mainly seven Muslim countries from entry into the United States. Individuals, organizations and State attorneys responded by suing the administration in Federal District Courts. The issue went all the way to the Ninth Circuit Court of Appeals […]