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Massa Mitt Does South of the Border
Over the past few months, the GOP has proudly reveled in Ronald Reagan’s old chestnut that “facts are stupid things.” First, Anne Romney told us...
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On Motherhood and Surviving Sexual Violence
By Gretchen Davidson There are moments in life that lift a curtain and give us a glimpse of what is really propelling us through this...
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Up to 70% of women in Afghan prisons accused of 'moral crimes'
High-level Afghan government officials have for the first time publicly confirmed that it is not a criminal offense for women and girls to “run away”...
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We Have Always Known: Embodying Community Accountability
A review of Community Accountability: Emerging Movements to Transform Violence, a special issue of Social Justice: A Journal of Crime, Conflict & World Order (Vol 37, No. 4,...
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I Was Raised By Welfare: A Defense of Social Safety Programs
By Bertha Alvarez Manninen A few houses down from my own, there sits a white Jeep parked in front of a middle-class suburban home. Every...
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U.S. Positive Women's Network devastated by murder of HIV-positive woman in Dallas
The U.S. Positive Women’s Network (PWN), a national membership body of women living with HIV, is devastated to hear the tragic news that a young...
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You Call That a Black President? Or, How Stupid Do Mainstream Politicians Think Black People Are?
Reflections on the DNC: Part 1 I went to the Democratic National Convention on a press pass. I had secretly hoped to rediscover my desire...
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Storytelling: Or, Autoethnography in the Academic Industrial Complex
By Mejdulene B. Shomali When my sisters and I were young, we’d ask our father to tell us a story before bedtime. I’m not sure...
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On Michelle and Motherhood
Sarah Mantilla Griffin “And I say all of this tonight not just as First Lady…and not just as a wife. You see, at the end...
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A Letter to Mis(s)-Education*
“Darnell, you can’t write.” I was an eighth-grade student at Morgan Village Middle School in Camden, New Jersey, when you, my Language Arts instructor, reprimanded...
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'Astonishingly high' diabetes rates found in ethnic groups in UK
Half of all people of South Asian, African and African Caribbean descent living in Britain will develop diabetes by age 80, scientists said on Monday in research...
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College Course Lumps Homosexuality, Rape, Murder
The Franciscan University of Steubenville in Ohio faces questions about its accreditation because of a course description that links homosexuality with crimes like murder, rape...
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Call for Submissions: Black (Academic) Women's Health
Phillis Wheatley, the first African American published poet, died at age 31. The strength of her work and the courage of her being did not...
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What Is The Ethnic Council? Eliding Racism at the DNC
Wednesday morning, a line formed through the Charlotte Convention Center as delegates, community members, and media waited to enter the African American Caucus to hear...
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Antiblack Geographies, or What the Charlotte YMCA and the Confederate Military Have in Common
Did you know that Charlotte’s Central City Dowd YMCA is on the same site as the Confederacy’s North Carolina Military Institute? This does not imply...
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Michelle Obama's Speech and Its Subtle Appeal to Republican Values?
Michelle Obama’s speech during Tuesday night’s Democratic National Convention gathering has provoked talk and tears, and rightly so—she delivered. Political insiders, media outlets, and convention...
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The Limits of Reproductive Politics: Defining Women’s Issues at the DNC
Early this morning, on the train from the Charlotte suburbs into the city center for the Democratic National Convention, I met a woman visiting the...
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Voices Marginalized at the DNC: WorldCantWait.net
Outside Community Outreach Christian Ministries, the church where Jesse Jackson is speaking for the Progressive Democrats of America, just before the Democratic National Convention. “The...