by TaRessa Stovall:
The butterfly effect – the concept that fluttering butterfly wings might set off minute changes in the atmosphere, affecting the path of a tornado far away – can be applied to the impact of America’s recession on many institutions, especially Historically Black Colleges and Universities (HBCUs).
With all of America’s mainstream colleges and universities [...]

It is now widely accepted that the precipitous slide of the American economy during the last three months is the worst economic crisis America has faced since the Great Depression of the 1930s.
A seemingly unending drumbeat of statistics from all sectors of the nation’s $14 trillion economy – grimly tolling our economic peril – have [...]

By Lee A. Daniels:
Perhaps they should re-stage the November 4 vote for president. Apparently now there are even more people who want to vote for Barack Obama than actually did on that day.
That’s the conclusion one can draw from post-election polls which show that the proportion of Americans who think Obama’s the right person for [...]

by The Editors
The grim indicators of America’s economic distress keep cascading across American society, like a blizzard that silently, inexorably drapes a thick white blanket of snow across the landscape. Except that the ravaging of the American economy, and the pain to businesses, institutions and ordinary citizens this blizzard of bad news is causing cannot [...]