Dr. Julianne Malveaux, PhD

Too many of us prefer complacency to discomfort. We prefer to think that everything is fine. Too many would like to pretend that inequality and injustice are minor matters until a headline shakes us out of complacency

"What does Judge Antonin Scalia mean by “lesser schools”? Is he familiar with the data on African American accomplishment? Does he share the same hubris that Abigail Fisher does, asserting that a deficient white student deserves an edge over a well-prepared black one?"

"I am excited that student activists are stepping up and speaking out about the racist and Confederate symbols that are woven into the very existence of our nation."

Why not use these last few weeks of the year to do some of the good we neglected to do earlier in the year? Why not show love, regard, respect through words and deeds, and not through stuff?

Police unions with integrity would uplift good officers and criticize bad ones. They’d assert, and then enforce, a code of conduct. They’d say there is zero tolerance to illegal police behavior, and then they’d enforce it.

Why are officers of the law on school grounds? How often is their behavior inappropriate?

"We should directly challenge these candidates on race matters, and push it as aggressively as we can."

Senator Bernie Sanders was the only one who uttered the words, “institutional racism”. Whatever the Black Lives Matter team said to him in back in August, it took. He invoked Sandra Bland, the woman who supposedly hanged herself in Texas, and talked about mass incarceration.