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SCIENCESpeak: Hurricane Matthew Proves Climate Change Is Real And Here To Stay

Posted by on Thursday, November 10, 2016, In : Policy Analysis 

Hurricane Matthew

How ironic.

Almost a month ago I participated in the 2016 Carolinas Climate Resilience Conference hosted by Carolinas Integrated Sciences and Assessments. None of us could have predicted Hurricane Matthew would strike the Carolinas. And yet, we shouldn’t be surprised. The effects of global warming and the consequences of radical climate change is a fact. All weather these days is affected by climate disruption. And right after the last presidential debate, David Leonhardt, i...


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Presidential Debate: Hillary’s Triumph Or Trump’s?

Posted by on Thursday, November 10, 2016, In : Policy Analysis 


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What really happened during the Sept. 26 debate between Hillary Clinton and Donald Trump?

Lester Holt allowed himself be intimidated by all the pre-media critiques and let Trump have his way. Why not just tell the man, “no” when he kept inserting his comments or take it out of his time for the next response? Instead, Trump was allowed to continue his political strategy of verbal bullying, non sequitur logic and making inappropriate sounds when his opponent spoke.


Without ...


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PACs and Politics: Who's your Rich (white) Daddy?

Posted by on Monday, October 19, 2015, In : Policy Analysis 
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A recent Wall Street Journal (WSJ), "Billionaires Put Their Stamp on Campaign," makes it clear that we are watching a new political era in the United States--an era of Big Bucks Politics. If you don't have millions in your coffers, or rich friends, get out of the proverbial political kitchen, because money is the fuel driving political elections today. 


America used to decry the political culture of Latin America that seemed embroiled in the politics of money and family connections, to the poi...
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Justspeak: A Black mother weeps for America--STOP KILLING OUR BLACK SONS! Black Press Award Winning Column for 2015

Posted by on Saturday, February 21, 2015, In : Policy Analysis 
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Ervin D. Fowlkes Sr. in Birmingham, Alabama, USA,
on 3 May 1963, being attacked by police dogs during a civil rights prot
est.



No Domestic Tranquility for our Black sons
They are not insurgents. They are not enemy combatants. They are not hostile enemy forces. They are not terrorists. They are our Black sons. And I beg you America to stop killing them in their own backyards, in the streets outside of nightclubs, on the phone talking to their girlfriend, and a few blocks from convenience s...
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Walk Right In DVD reflects summer of 1969

Posted by Insight News on Sunday, March 10, 2013, In : Policy Analysis 

Irma McClaurin '69, Lucy Flower Vocational High School, West Side of Chicago
  (Photo credit: mcclaurin solutions)

In the summer of 1968, 140 students from inner city and rural America gathered at the Yale University Divinity School to participate in an educational experiment. White, Black, Puerto Rican, Indian American, and Asian American students, labeled by New Haven newspapers as "underachievers," were introduced to a "Great American Books" curriculum that included The American Constitution...
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Justspeak: Eliminating the Rolodex of inequality

Posted by on Sunday, February 3, 2013, In : Policy Analysis 
At a recent networking event for women in Raleigh, I listened as a panel of experienced women executives shared their experiences with the audience. One question posed was about how non-profit and corporate board members were recruited. One response stood out in my mind. The speaker indicated that she often recruited board members by tapping into her friends and colleagues. The answer affirmed a thesis of mine—there exists in our society what I call the “ Rolodex of inequality,” ...
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Justspeak: (RE)Visioning a World without Violence Against Women

Posted by on Thursday, December 27, 2012, In : Policy Analysis 
The senseless murder of 22-year-old Kasandra Perkins by her boyfriend, Kansas City Chief's linebacker Jovan Belcher, 25, and his subsequent suicide, is a double tragedy that highlights the degree to which domestic violence has permeated our culture. Perkins was also the mother of a three-month old daughter fathered by Belcher, and according to news reports, his mother and the child witnessed the murder. What is unique about this case is that most of the original media coverage focused...
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Justspeak: Presidential slam dunk—Obama wins electoral landslide re-election

Posted by on Wednesday, December 12, 2012, In : Policy Analysis 
For the second time in this 21st century Barack Hussein Obama, the first Black President of the United States of America, has made history. He won his re-election by an electoral landslide. He beat the odds that predicted he would win the electoral vote but not the popular vote, and thereby further polarizing America.
Well, they were wrong. This incumbent president has won reelection with 50% of the people claiming President Barrack Hussein Obama as the person to lead them over the next four y...
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Justspeak: “Who Let the Dogs Out?” Romney and the Republican Party

Posted by on Wednesday, December 12, 2012, In : Policy Analysis 
Alexis Charles Henri Clérel de Tocqueville, Gunnar Myrdal, Governor Otto Kerner, Jr. What do they all have in common, besides being deceased and white men? Alexis de Tocqueville wrote Democracy in Americapublished in two volumes (1835 and 1840) in which he made observations about the impact of slavery on the newly-formed American society; Gunnar Myrdal ( a Swedish economist) wrote An American Dilemma: The Negro Problem and Modern Democracy (1944) on U.S. race relations; and Governor Otto Ker...
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President Obama: He got game!

Posted by Irma McClaurin on Wednesday, December 12, 2012, In : Policy Analysis 
Well if Stella could get her groove back, why not the President? We saw him in his "A" game mode during the second presidential debate. It was like Ali coming back at Frazier the third and final time around—"the thrilla in Manilla." What we saw was intellect unleashed—the thrilla in Hempstead, N.Y. Not quite as exotic, but it served its purpose. President Barack Hussain Obama, the incumbent, was on point—like Michael Jordan doing a slam dunk.

And what about Romney? He's still trying to s...
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Obama rewind needed

Posted by on Wednesday, December 12, 2012, In : Policy Analysis 

President Barack Obama and Gov. Mitt Romney

 
I’m not sure who is coaching President Obama, but I hope they just got fired. As someone who has worked in media, given hundreds of speeches, taught university courses, and given many poetry readings, one thing I’ve learned is that people like a performance! And that’s what was missing from President Obama’s presentation in the first debate.

I think the Obama media people are young and old white men who have experience doing political campaig...
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WANTED: A caring and compassionate presidential candidate for the 47%

Posted by on Wednesday, December 12, 2012, In : Policy Analysis 
I confess. I am now, and probably always will be, a member of the 47% about whom Presidential Candidate Romney has voiced his disrespect and disdain. I am African-American. I was a single mom after my divorce. I was a college student who received a government subsidized student loan.

When I was a child, my divorced mom received benefits from Aid to Dependent Children (ADC). I am a working woman. And yes, I voted for President Barack Obama four years ago, and damn proud of it. I am in the ranks...
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Why George Zimmerman does not get the “Hispanic” pass card on racism

Posted by on Thursday, December 6, 2012, In : Policy Analysis 
George Zimmerman has finally been arrested.  But is it too little too late?  Perhaps, but it is important that those who follow this case not get confused by the assertions that Zimmerman could not be racist because he is “Hispanic.”  What has been missing from the discussion thus far is an analysis of race and racism in the countries of Central and South America, and how Spanish-speaking immigrants (and/or their American-born children) can harbor cultural baggage that includes the...
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Justspeak: Ethnic mapping/racial profiling: What's in a name?

Posted by on Sunday, August 5, 2012, In : Policy Analysis 


“First they came for the Jews and I did not speak out because

I was not a Jew.  Then they came for the Communists and I did not speak out

because I was not a Communist. …Then they came for me

and there was no one left to speak out for me.”

I am always haunted by these words of Rev. Fredrich Gustav Emil Martin Niemöller, delivered in his last sermon before he was incarcerated by the Nazis in 1937.  They are a reminder of how fragile freedom is, and a warning of what can happe...


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President Obama Didn't Get It Right on Birth Control Compromise

Posted by on Friday, February 24, 2012, In : Policy Analysis 

President Barack Obama - Photo: White House

This time I think President Obama got it wrong.  I understand why he made the compromise
 he did—to avoid a religious-inflamed political battle.  But I wished he hadn’t taken the
 road of compromise. In doing so, he’s done a disservice to women’s right to choose
 what happens to our bodies.


Right now, it feels like 1972 before the advent of Roe v. Wade.  This ruling by the Supreme
Court overturned a Texas interpretation of abortion law an...

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