All posts tagged "U.S. Politics"
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The Mildred Patricia Baena Story
By Allison McCarthy A sketch from Monday night’s episode of Lopez Tonight is grabbing entertainment headlines. Comedian George Lopez claimed to have a world exclusive...
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Cornel West and the Crisis in Black Leadership
By Rev. Osagyefo Uhuru Sekou The recent controversy ignited by Cornel West’s critique of President Barack Obama and subsequent critiques of Dr. West reveal a...
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Sluts on Parade
By Ulli K. Ryder, Ph.D., Visiting Scholar, Brown University The Slutwalk is sweeping the world – women and men, march and shout chants, carrying banners...
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Views on the West Wing (I)
It is fair to say that the Obama Presidency has set my mind awash in currents of confusion: I confess—I don’t know what the man...
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The United States of Incarceration
By LaToyyia Knight-Gonzales and Monica J. Casper America has a prison problem. And this problem does not involve a shortage of jails. Nor is it...
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On the Death of Osama bin Laden
By Aliyyah I. Abdur-Rahman My son asked me last night if I were “happy” that Osama bin Laden had been killed. He expressed his own sense...
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On the Record: the Right’s Document Fetish
Academics, especially those in the humanities, cannot escape bad news. We hear of fresh budget cuts on a weekly basis. In the last few weeks...
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Rock Struck: Obama and the Hard Place of Paper
After noise and nonsense from the political right, the President of the United States, had to show his papers. The fact of a black man...
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Foreign Policies
According to operatic lore, the inauguration of the Suez Canal and the opening of the Cairo Opera were supposed to have occurred conjointly with the...