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Multiculturalism in America: The Struggle for Acceptance Continues

The Editors — Sat, 01 Oct 2011 15:58:20 +0000

By Tarice L.S. Gray
The evolution of multiculturalism has not just been about acceptance, but about leveling the playing field.

Pride vs. Policy: Who Wins and Who Loses When More Folks Choose the Multi-racial Option?

The Editors — Tue, 08 Feb 2011 23:34:23 +0000

By TaRessa Stovall
The growth of multi-racial people and their assertion that their Census choices should reflect their presence in the population is presenting an interesting quandary.

What Is Truly ‘Exceptional’ About America

The Editors — Fri, 28 Jan 2011 22:09:15 +0000

By Lee A. Daniels
Here’s a suggestion: Whenever you hear or read someone boasting of “American exceptionalism,” -- the notion that America has since its founding been uniquely ordained by God and its own moral character to lead the world – reach for your wallet. Because, intellectually speaking, someone is surely trying to pick your pocket.

Courage: Where Do We Need It Now?

The Editors — Sun, 23 Jan 2011 00:59:19 +0000

By The Editors
A panel of leaders who’ve worked to foster greater diversity told a public forum in Charlotte, North Carolina Thursday evening it was imperative that Americans regain their courage, their sense of community, and their faith that the country does have enough room, resources and opportunity for all.

Obama’s New American First: The President as ‘The Other’

The Editors — Fri, 20 Aug 2010 15:38:12 +0000

By Lee A. Daniels Today, American society is flooded with virulent, racially-driven images and rhetoric hurled against the President, saturated with the demonizing of undocumented Latino immigrants and calls for scrapping the constitutional protection all children born in America should enjoy, and degraded by cynical assertions that guilt-by-association is valid principle to apply to people who are not white

New York City’s Wrong Stop-and-Frisk Policy

The Editors — Fri, 09 Jul 2010 18:01:34 +0000

By Johanna Steinberg Thousands of law-abiding New Yorkers are unfairly and unlawfully subjected to stops-and-frisks because New York City Police Department officers routinely make unfounded assumptions of criminality based on race or ethnicity

Toward a New View of Muslim Women

The Editors — Tue, 16 Jun 2009 20:27:26 +0000

By Nura Sediqe
President Obama's words in his June 4 address in Cairo, Egypt have brought a refreshing change in the rhetoric that is commonly utilized when discussing women and Islam. They were only a few simple lines in a long and extensive speech addressing a variety of pressing policy issues, but for Muslim women like myself, there was a pause....while we were all thinking, "Did he really just say that?"