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March 8th, 2012
Written by D. A. Barber in All About Family, Latest News with 2 Comments
Some homes become single parent homes for reasons other than divorce or desertion.According to the New York-based Applied Research Center, the government deported 46,000 parents of U.S. born children in the first six months of 2011 with an estimated 5,100 of those children delegated to foster homes due to such deportations.This is one of the lesser-told stories about our current immigration...
March 7th, 2012
Written by Janice S. Ellis Ph.D. in Cause and Civility, Latest News, Race Relations with 7 Comments
The U.S. Department of Education released a very disturbing report this week highlighting the disproportionately high rate of blacks students suspended from schools in comparison to white students. Black students are three time more likely to be suspended for days than whites irrespective of whether they come from poor, middle class, or wealthy families.The practice and glaring disparities were...
March 6th, 2012
Written by Rita Rizzo in Feature Stories, Latest News with 2 Comments
Women’s rights recently came under siege again. A woman’s rights to earn a living, control her own body, have access to healthcare, and plan her own future have all publicly come into question during the past month. Established rights that today’s women enjoy are being decried as the reason for the morale decline in America. Women have had to fight long and hard to get these rights, and now it...
March 5th, 2012
Written by Abby L. Ferber Ph.D. Professor of Sociology in Latest News, National Collegiate Dialogue with 6 Comments
Each week, the White Privilege Conference and the Matrix Center for the Advancement of Social Equity and Inclusion, housed at the University of Colorado, Colorado Springs (UCCS), hosts a half hour radio show called Intersections Radio that features an interview with a different author, scholar, and/or speaker.In this segment, Sherryl Weston, a faculty member at the Center for Progressive...
March 5th, 2012
Written by Stephany Rose Ph.D. Assistant Professor in Latest News, National Collegiate Dialogue with 13 Comments
What white person pissed you off? This was the question of unrest heralded from the opposite end of the phone line by a friend at his breaking moment. Although whiteness is one of the most crucial aspects of American culture and society, to turn the looking-glass onto whiteness seems and feels “strange” to most. However, as a critical whiteness consultant this is work that I do daily. WTH!!! Yes...
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