EDITORIAL
Education remains the keyAn important victory in the battle for civil rights was the 1954 U.S. Supreme Court decision in Brown v. Board of Education. The court held that segregated public education is inherently unequal and therefore unconstitutional. This case sounded the death knell of the "separate but equal" doctrine that had been the law of the land since the court's decision in Plessy v. Ferguson in 1896. More » |
OPINION
Stimulus efforts not enough to halt economic declineThe news is in. In 2007, 1.3 million U.S. households faced some stage of foreclosure, up 79 percent from the previous year, according to the real estate Web site RealtyTrac. This startling statistic, coupled with declines in housing starts and sales, explains to some extent why our nation's leaders want as soon as possible to stem the tide of economic decline in which the subprime mortgage debacle has no doubt played a role. More » |
The 'wilderness years' may now be behind usFrom Hillary Clinton's campaign theme ("Ready for Change"), to the stances of Mitt Romney (which continue to change), to Ron Paul's cash-strapped campaign (which could use some change), politicians and the American people alike have grasped that there is something different about this election season. That something seems to be personified by Democratic presidential candidate Barack Obama. While many commentators, and now the Kennedys, see Obama's magic as reminiscent of the Camelot era, I would suggest that what we're seeing has even broader implications than the Kennedy connection. More » |
Enough is enoughOver the course of my career, I've been asked many times: Do you identify yourself first as a black person or as a woman? I've always thought it was an odd question, the answer to which would depend on the situation in which I was called to "identify myself." Moreover, it seemed silly to assess permanent supremacy to one immutable characteristic over another when I've always felt so shaped by both. More » |
LETTER TO THE EDITOR
Happy customer, development officials rush to spa's defenseI read with great dismay the lengthy, vicious letter to the editor from Geauanne M. Hill concerning the Halisi Day Spa & Salon ("Poor service, not poor branding, is Crosstown spa's problem," Jan. 31, 2008). I have been a regular customer since the spa's opening, and my experience is exactly the opposite of Ms. Hill's. Mrs. Jones is neither rude nor unprofessional. More » |
