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BC Editorial Board Member Dr. Julianne Malveaux, PhD (JulianneMalveaux.com) is former dean of the College of Ethnic Studies at Cal State, the Honorary Co- Chair of the Social Action Commission of Delta Sigma Theta Sorority, Incorporated and serves on the boards of the Economic Policy Institute as well as The Recreation Wish List Committee of Washington, DC. Her latest book is Are We Better Off? Race, Obama and Public Policy. A native San Franciscan, she is the President and owner of Economic Education a 501 c-3 non-profit headquartered in Washington, D.C. During her time as the 15th President of Bennett College for Women, Dr. Malveaux was the architect of exciting and innovative transformation at America’s oldest historically black college for women. Contact Dr. Malveaux and BC.
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In the twisted logic of this political moment, counting racial inequality is treated as a form of racial discrimination, while actual discrimination is rendered invisible.
The Trump administration is not eliminating workplace discrimination. It is eliminating the receipts. On July 23, the Equal Employment Opportunity Commission (EEOC) proposed abolishing the EEO-1…
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People who had little offered us coffee or water. Cubans spoke candidly about their frustrations. They did not resemble puppets in either Washington’s or Havana’s propaganda.
Fellow traveler” is a phrase dragged from the rhetorical graveyard of the 1950s, when accusation substituted for evidence and dissent became disloyalty. Its appearance in a…
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Imagine generations of Americans encountering Tubman not only during Black History Month, but every day - at the ATM, the corner store and the kitchen table. That is why representation on currency matters. It is history placed into circulation.
As an economist, I have spent much of my life thinking about what money does. It measures value. It facilitates exchange. It stores wealth. But money…
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They take seriously the students America too often treats as afterthoughts, and they turn potential into leadership. The question is whether they will receive the investment, protection, and respect that their record demands.
This week I am thinking about what it means to go back to school in a country that still rations opportunity. The stores are selling backpacks…
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Congress can act. The administration can halt deportations. Communities can protect their neighbors.
Haiti is not an abstraction. Haiti is a nation whose pain has too often been treated as policy collateral, a people whose labor is welcomed when…
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A budget that takes food from women and children tells us exactly whose lives are expendable.
They are calling it a budget cut. But let’s be clear: when Congress cuts WIC, it is taking food from pregnant women, babies, toddlers, and young…
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What kind of people continue offering hospitality when scarcity shapes nearly every aspect of life?
Imagine having electricity for only four hours a day. Now imagine not knowing which four hours. Can you make coffee? Refrigerate medicine? Charge your phone? Will…
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The ongoing weakening of the Department of Education sends a chilling message about national priorities.
Seventy-one years ago, the Supreme Court issued its ruling in Brown v. Board of Education, declaring that separate educational facilities are inherently unequal. For generations of…
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A project delayed, a program underfunded, a priority shifted. The fight over maps is, at its core, a fight over whether under-investment will persist.
Elections aren’t supposed to stop midstream, but in Louisiana, they did. After the Supreme Court stepped into the state’s redistricting fight, Governor Jeff Landry halted congressional…
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