Watch the Second 2020 Presidential Debate
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New Strategies in the Playbook: Athletes Turned Activists
By Jade Lawson From the boxing ring to the Olympic podium and the sidelines of football fields, athletes continue to harness the spotlight to raise awareness of racial injustice in America. While millions are quarantined in their homes due to a global coronavirus pandemic, America has also been forced to reckon with an even longer
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A Nation in Pain and the Promise of Hope
Justice for the Taylor family was called into question after a grand jury refused to charge two of the three police officers, Sergeant Jon Mattingly and Detective Myles Cosgrove, with the killing of 26 year old emergency room technician, Breonna Taylor. The only indictment was handed to former Detective Bret Harkinson for allegedly firing blindly
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R.B.G. – Our Superstar – Is Gone !
Ruth Bader Ginsburg – our nation’s leading advocate of “equality under law” – has died, and her loss will be widely felt. Her impassioned and compelling judicial opinions – and dissents – which fought for (and advanced) gender equality and rights for the disabled, and against stereotypic prejudices of all types, were landmarks
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The Door is Open For Africa
If it plays its cards right, Africa could become the world’s next major economic player within the next century, according to a recent report by theWorld Economic Forum. A bold statement indeed, but not an altogether unrealistic one for a continent housing six of the world’s fastest-growing economies, along with a population that is on
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Toni Braxton – Spell My Name Review
When using words such as iconic, legendary, timeless, (and more) an artist that comes to the mind of many is none other than the incomparable, Toni Braxton. Having sold millions on top of millions of albums & records around the world, Toni Braxton has been such an unshakeable force within the realm of pop and
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America’s Identity Crisis – “What am I?” VS. “Who am I?”
The Characteristics that distinguish us as individuals and those we share with others have become burning issues in American life. Stereotypic thinking today tries to place us in rigid categories that limit us, demean us and define us by the lowest common denominator of a dysfunctional group. In the process, everyone loses and we must
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Sports & Politics
From the boxing ring to the Olympic podium and the sidelines of football fields, athletes continue to harness the spotlight to raise awareness of racial injustice in America. While millions are quarantined in their homes due to a global coronavirus pandemic, America has also been forced to reckon with an even longer epidemic – racism
COVID Impact on Recent Grads
Fatima J. McKindra, a recent graduate from Kansas City University of Medicine and Biosciences (KCU), had intended to work for a year before continuing on to medical school when the novel Coronavirus hit the U.S. earlier this year. Faced with a new reality and wanting to make a difference on the frontlines, McKindra, 40, found
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The Rise of the Black Woman – Loretta Lynch
“The color of Grace has played the leading lady in the role of the rising and re-emergence of the Black Woman. To know the Truth of her walk is to learn that all lessons are equal. In her world, every element brings us a course of study. If we listen to its call, it loudly
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