Issue: 783
April 04, 2019
Color of Law
U.S. Higher Education: A System of Meritocracy That Never Was
Executive Editor
African American parents have always told their children they must work twice as hard to get half as much. The problem is that with the current state of regressive politics in the US, our children's children will likely have to hear the same words, unless we take urgent action.
Earlier this month, a $25m fraud scheme which helped children of wealthy parents cheat their way into top American universities was unearthed by US prosecutors. As…
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Commentary
Toward a Living Wage
Editorial Board
While those at the top are celebrating economic growth, those at the bottom have barely experienced it. And the current minimum wage of $7.25 produces annual pay of $15,080, assuming that someone works a full 40 hours a week all 52 weeks of the year, which is often unlikely because many minimum wage jobs are part-time jobs.
It is unfathomable that the federal minimum wage has not been increased in more than a decade, since 2007, that the wage, at $7.25 per hour…
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Commentary
April 3, 1968 – Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr. – I’ve Been to the Mountaintop
Guest Commentator
The nation is sick. Trouble is in the land. Confusion all around. That’s a strange statement. But I know, somehow, that only when it is dark enough, can you see the stars.
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Commentary
Irrational President to Withhold Further Aid for Puerto Rico? – Solidarity America
Columnist
just doesn't seem to get the idea that there is an island that is a commonwealth of the U.S., that their people are American citizens, and that he should take action to help them in their time of need. Mayor Cruz speculated that he could be smarting from the bankruptcy of his golf course on the island.
While the island of Puerto Rico continues the attempt to recover from the ravages of Hurricane Maria of September 2017, President Trump in his inimitable way…
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Sharp n’ Blunt
Ol’ Joe Biden – Both a “Great White Hope” and a “Negro Lover”
Columnist
Rush, Hannity and all the good ol boys hate him for collaborating with the sworn enemy - Blacks. He’s guilty in the white American court of public opinion, guilty of aiding and abetting the sworn enemy of the ‘Right’ - President Obama.
Ol’ Joe Biden . . . perhaps the last “great white hope” of LBJ’s fatally fractured and forever flawed 20th century Democrat Party. “Moderates” who almost…
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Commentary
Gov. Murphy (D-NJ), Beto, Uncle Joe, AOC, Dem Implosion
Columnist
Presently, there are too many fissures within the Democratic Party for it to win the Presidency or to regain the Senate. It appears to be experiencing a self-induced implosion.
Democrats are reeling from self-inflicted wounds that are imperiling their upcoming 2020 Democratic campaigns for: retention of control in the House of Representatives, hopes for retaking…
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Guest Commentary
Two Higher Education Systems: One for the Vulnerable and the Other for the Privileged
Guest Commentator
Higher education has always been an institution that has evolved over time often expanding access to a broader portion of the populace. No one who is astute to the dynamics in higher education can deny that higher education has undergone a dramatic change over that past 25 years.
In his new book, Potential on the Periphery: College Access from the Ground Up, Omari Scott Simmons, Howard L. Oleck Professor of Business Law Program at…
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