Dr. Byron Price Works to Kill the School-to-Prison Pipeline
There’s a disturbing trend taking place in our public schools, especially in high poverty neighborhoods – where hallways and grounds are patrolled by police and disciplinary problems are no longer handled by counseling and detention but by suspension and arrest. Known as the school-to-prison pipeline, the trend is turning our adolescent students into criminals at [...]
Dr. Julianne Malveaux: Medical Attitudes Maintain Health Disparities
by Dr. Julianne Malveaux Anna Brown, a St. Louis based homeless woman needed treatment for a sprained ankle. She went to three emergency rooms seeking such treatment. In the third hospital, St. Mary’s Health Center, Ms. Brown was emphatic about needing care. Instead she was arrested for trespassing, and died in a jail cell! Was [...]
Maybe Men Can Be Forgiven for Cheating
Clutch magazine‘s Kirsten West Savali questions the conventional wisdom that women need a reason to be unfaithful, while men only need an opportunity. In this patriarchal society, the mistakes that young men make primarily center around them stumbling towards manhood — what it is and how to get there. They are taught that [...]
What Will Be Obama’s Legacy-Obamacare?
Your legacy is what will define the type of person that you were for those who were not around in your time. If you are successful in defining yourself now, then your legacy will live on long after you do. There are some roles and occupations where a positive legacy becomes more pronounced in history. [...]
The NRA’s Ad Against Obama is Defined as Nasty, Racist and Even Ignorant
The National Rifle Association does not seem to be able to draw positive attention to itself lately. Now the NRA is feeling the heat after their new ads insult Obama and comment on his daughters. The ad attacks Obama for providing his daughters with armed guards in school but not supporting armed guards for all [...]
Rev. Al Sharpton Says After Gun Control, We May Have to Deal With Knife Control
by Yvette Carnell To demonstrate the absurdity of the gun control argument, you need look no further than Rev. Al Sharpton, who says that once we’re done with gun control, we may have to deal with knife control. That argument is to the left wing what the NRA’s argument of, ‘let’s put a gun in [...]
Bestselling Author Asks: “Is it Time to Profile White Men?”
Black men get profiled. Arab men get profiled. Latino men get profiled. But remarkably, white men have been engaging in mass shootings since Columbine, but … radio silence. No one is profiling young white men for having a propensity toward violence, and writer David Sirota wondered aloud, on MSNBC’s Up With Chris Hayes, why that isn’t happening? [...]
Arkansas State GOP Candidate Supports Death Penalty For Bad Kids
There is no law but God’s law- that’s a line you hear conservatives use quite often. But to adopt such a notion is to live in a theocracy, not a democracy, and the Founders have already made that choice. What is striking about these right wing zealots though is how often their Christian law ends [...]
Busted: 91 Doctors, Nurses, Medical Professionals Charged In $430M Medicare Fraud
The U.S. Justice Department and the Department of Health and Human Services discovered alleged false billing schemes involving $230 million in home health services, over $100 million in mental services, and $49 million from ambulance transportation. Ninety-one people, including: doctors, nurses, and other medical professionals, have been charged with committing over $430 million in Medicare [...]
Kirsten West-Savali: Tyler the Creator, You’re More than a “Young n***a”
By: Kirsten West Savali, Your Black World When Tyler the Creator, 20, stepped onto MTV’s VMA stage to accept his Moonman for Best New Artist in August, he delivered an acceptance speech reflective of both his questionable intellect and contagious effervescence: “Yo, I’m excited as f— right now, yo,” he said. “I wanted this sh– since I was [...]
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