Has the Smartphone Destroyed A Generation
I stole the original title by Jean M. Twenge because it is a good one. Call me old fashioned – folks do that now – I don’t understand why. I […]
Author Archives: Sherie Labedis
The Question of First Amendment Rights
“Silicon Valley is finally cracking down on white supremacists,” said Rob Price in BusinessInsider.com. In the aftermath of the violent rally in Charlottesville, VA, technology companies have blocked web […]
The Measure of our Stride
As the events of Charlottesville unfolded I became despondent. Is the United States I have been praying and fighting for the last 52 years backsliding into the abyss of white-supremacy? […]
My Fellow White People, We Need to Talk
Valerie Castile, mother of Philando Castile Following is an article by FogCityJohn. I have posted it because I absolutely agree. I remember reading this quote by James Baldwin in 1965 […]
Algebra, Civil Rights, Immigrants: Why Sending Them Home Won’t Solve the Job Crisis
From the book jacket of Radical Equations: Math Literacy and Civil Rights: “Bob Moses went to Mississippi in 1961, a young man, drawn by the sit-ins. By 1964, his work […]
TRUMP PROMISES FOR THE FIRST 100 DAYS
On the first day of my term of office, my administration will immediately pursue the following six measures to clean up the corruption and special interest collusion in Washington, DC: […]
Meryl Streep Said it Best
Thank you, Hollywood Foreign Press. Just to pick up on what Hugh Laurie said. You and all of us in this room, really, belong to the most vilified segments […]
WE SHOULD BE AFRAID, VERY AFRAID
I am reading an article in “Atlantic Magazine” entitled “How Social Media Got Weaponized: War in the Digital Age” by Emerson T. Brooking and P.W. Singer. It is a […]
FEELING AWE MAY BE THE SECRET TO HEALTH AND HAPPINESS
I have had an awesome life as in awe filled for which I am totally grateful. Please read and enjoy this article by Paula Spencer Scott. The hike, in a […]
THE ELECTORAL COLLEGE AND SLAVERY – YES, SLAVERY
Sometimes I want to scream and this is one of them. How many of you want to get rid of the Electoral College because it trumps (pun not deliberate) the […]
