Boring but important from The Week, May 25, 2018
White House blocks chemical pollution Study. The White House and Environmental Protection Agency squelched a federal water pollution study after a Trump aide warned that its publication would be a […]
Category Archives: Women’s Issues
Guest Posting: ‘There might be someone one day who just needs to hear your story’: Why Recovering Addicts Say It’s Best to be Open About Recovery
Addiction, much like depression, is a very serious mental health issue — in fact, the conditions often coincide with one another. And as with depression, addiction has a brutal way […]
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 […]
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 […]
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 […]
The Glass Ceiling Holds
I think it is a good time to do a quick review of women’s history as it relates to the right to vote. Modern women/girls have the freedom to come […]
Is Gun Use for Everyone?
What would happen if several black men went to a gun store to buy an AR-15 because they wanted to protect themselves from the police? What would happen if several […]
PARABLE OF THE OLD WOOD STOVE
Earlier this year Dr. Stephanie Evans of Clark Atlanta University invited me to contribute a chapter to her collection of stories about African American women accompanied by recipes that inspired […]
Are We Coddling Our Kids?
This is a fascinating article on how parenting has changed since we were kids. Just sharing for fun.
