discrimination Archive
I teach. I teach in the way I learn, through humor and context. I put together history with current events and make them draw a direct line of comparison. I put forward new, innovated science and technology releases, and we …
My dear South…what is going on down there? Do you need help? Are you having a stroke and need medical attention? I know we’ve always had our differences, but for a long time we just had a friendly rivalry going …
By Amanda Sakuma While the political uproar has died down over the flood of unaccompanied minors caught at the U.S. border, the states taking in the immigrant children continue to grapple with how to welcome – or not – the …
In bullying situations, blaming the victim and siding with the bully are default options, even though bullies are not popular. Changing these patterns means working against the status quo, but wouldn't everybody be better off?...Joan Beckwith.
SCSJ Senior Attorney Daryl Atkinson appeared on HuffPost Live at 6:30 PM EST with Senator Cory Booker (D-NJ) and HufffPost Washington Bureau Chief Ryan Grim to discuss Michelle Alexander’s critically acclaimed book, The New Jim Crow: Mass Incarceration in the …
The more I read on the issue of the Charter of Quebec Values, I wonder whose values are these? Not mine. I agree with separation of ‘church and state,’ but this is so much more than that. ‘It was originally …
45 years ago today the world lost a leader in Human Rights. Martin Luther King Jr. was shot and killed in Memphis at the age of 39. Mr. King remains as one of the best examples of
I was asked this weekend whether I thought President Obama, or any politician curtails to minority populations in order to become elected. Absolutely. You see every politician must gain the approval of minority populations for a very specific reason. They …
The United States Justice Department took one step forward in the fight against the criminalization of marginalized youth this past Wednesday by filing a law suit “claiming that the due process rights of children are “repeatedly and routinely” violated when …
Lately, I’ve been processing troubling thoughts on the growth of misogyny in this country and many parts of the world. What does it mean for children growing up in such a society and what is the impact on the future …