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The sentiment that Blacks “should know better” when it comes to prejudice against other groups is a product of white supremacist thinking. Being Black doesn’t imbue us with special powers to automatically understand someone else’s plight…

President Obama has officially announced that he’s supports marriage equality. How do you think this will impact his reelection prospects? Do you support same-sex marriage?

A new report released by the NYCLU on New York City’s controversial “Stop and Frisk” program exposes jaw-dropping ineffectiveness and racial disparities. Obviously, something must to be done to reign in this racist, abusive policy.

Even after her dismissal from The Chronicle of Higher Education’s Brainstorm blog, Naomi Schaefer Riley’s words continue to be debated, turned over, torn apart and even defended. Ineptitude aside, Schaefer Riley stirred up an interesting conversation around the legitimacy and relevance of black studies, women’s studies and gay and lesbian studies. These are academic disciplines […]

A bullied gay student has been expelled from his Indianapolis High School after firing a stun gun in the air to ward off his attackers. But does he deserve to be expelled? Should his high school have done more to protect him?

A recent educational study found that Black and Latino students often receive less critical, overly positive feedback from teachers. By not giving minority students the contstructive criticism they need and deserve, these teachers are stifling their intellectual growth.

A group of party-goers atop a frat house at Cornell University hurled beer cans and empty bottles of alcohol at a group of African American students, while taunting them with references to Trayvon Martin.

22 year-old UNARMED Rekia Boyd was shot and killed by off-duty Chicago police officer Dante Servin near Douglas Park. Almost two months later, her killer still has not been charged with a crime. Boyd’s family wants JUSTICE!

April 29th marked the 20th anniversary of the LA rebellion, a response to decades of police brutality that culminated in the video tapped beating of Rodney King and a not guilty verdict for the offending officers. VH1 did a very good documentary of the rebellion and the role of Hip-Hop called Uprising: Hip Hop and […]

NYPD officers are caught on tape brutally beating a 19 year-old Bronx resident for no apparent reason. Is this just another example of New York’s racist, oppressive “Stop and Frisk Program” at work?

Although I was rather unceremoniously catapulted from it, I occasionally hear stirrings in the Ivory Tower. And sometimes those goings-on warrant a drivel-laced comment from me. Late last week, Brainstorm, one of the blogs on The Chronicle of Higher Education website, ran a response to the its own feature on some members of Northwestern University’s first class of […]

 Affirmative Action is soon to be challenged once again, and I find the debate around it particularly troubling. Not necessarily because of the political implications surrounding the debate, but because it begins to expose just how little people understand the complexities of Race in this country. The conversation around Affirmative Action usually begins to devolve […]