Race and Politics

Are Colleges Promoting More Diversity?

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D. A. Barber

More than 50 years after Brown v. Board of Education, there is a consensus among K-12 educators that students benefit from working side by side with others who are ethnically diverse. The same is true within higher education since the skills needed in a global economy are best developed through exposure to diverse people and cultures.

U.S. Born Children Losing Parents To Deportation & Detainment

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D. A. Barber

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 policy. What happens to the children – often U.S. citizens – of the immigrant parents that Immigration and Customs Enforcement detains or deports?

Fanning The Flames Of Feminism: Do We Really Have To Fight This Battle Again?

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Rita Rizzo

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 looks as though we will need to fight once again to keep them.

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