Publisher's Note
Publisher offers an analytical perspective on current or historical issues and event about race and race relations in the United States
January 17th, 2014
Written by Janice S. Ellis Ph.D. in Publisher's Note with 2 Comments
Is it time to rethink how we think of race? There is only one race, the human race, but many ethnic groups.
Race is a construct whose precise origin still remains in dispute among scholars. However, there is a large body of scholarship in the humanities and social sciences that confirms race is a modern concept constructed under specific historical, social and economic conditions – often to...
October 15th, 2013
Written by Janice S. Ellis Ph.D. in Publisher's Note with 0 Comments
There is much angst, hand wringing and jousting about gun violence from the Halls of Congress to hallways, living rooms, coffee shops, kitchens and cafes. But acts of gun violence are symptomatic of much deeper problems.
Incidents of gun violence are symptomatic of very deep and complex societal problems here in America, and the passage of more restrictive gun legislation will merely serve as a...
July 8th, 2013
Written by Janice S. Ellis Ph.D. in Publisher's Note with 0 Comments
When it comes to exercising individual freedom, there is no greater place on earth than the United States of America. But when, in the course of exercising our individual freedom, does it become recklessness?
It goes beyond not screaming "Fire" in a crowded theater when there isn't one.
During the month of July, each year we celebrate this nation's birth, its independence and the awesome...
April 4th, 2013
Written by Janice S. Ellis Ph.D. in Publisher's Note with 0 Comments
One of the best ways to remember Martin Luther King, Jr. is to continue some aspect of the work for which he lived and died. But there is so much left to be done.
Forty-five years ago on April 4, 1968, an assassin’s bullet claimed the life of Martin Luther King, Jr. at the Lorraine Motel in Memphis, Tennessee. King was there in support of the garbage workers who were striking to get better wages...
March 30th, 2013
Written by Janice S. Ellis Ph.D. in Publisher's Note with 0 Comments
The planned rally in Memphis shows that the Ku Klux Klan is alive and well today. One of the worst vestiges of racism and racial segregation in the south is promoting hate and separateness, still in the 21st Century.
Memphis police have vowed that security will be heavy at the weekend rally, where the white supremacist group plans to protest the renaming of three Confederate parks.
According to...
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