I am one of ‘those people’.….you know the type. When beliggerent little brown folks scatter about and behave a bit extra I can’t help but to turn my nose up. Now, please believe, I am not one sided with my side-eye, I’ll quickly funk face a rude, loud White woman as quickly as I will check [...]

With so much going on around the world one can definitely point back to this time in history as an example of how human rights and equality took to the forefront of real people’s lives. Without the distraction of food, housing and responsibilities, suddenly everyone is very concerned with the ‘poor’. As a political scientist, I keep [...]

When you hear about how the cops routinely find reasons to arrest innocent people… does it surprise you? Not too long ago the answer to this question may have been vastly different depending on the race of the person answering but these days the answer is more often in the affirmative. You need only be [...]

Yeah, I realize the irony of the headline over this blog post, but let’s get real serious for a minute. This may be Troy Davis’ last chance to live. Davis was convicted and sentenced to death in 1991 for the 1989 murder of off-duty Savannah police officer Mark Allen MacPhail. Davis’s conviction was based largely [...]

[Editor's Note: The following is in reference to the case of Troy Davis, an unfairly convicted human being who is scheduled to be executed in two weeks… If you’re not familiar with the story, Troy Davis was convicted of murdering a Georgia police officer in 1991. Nearly twenty years later, Davis remains on death row [...]

  Most people hope that if and when they need to stand before a court of law that there will be, to some degree, a system of ‘due process’. The term is a phrase used to describe the system of checks and balances or rather steps that each side must adhere to in order for [...]

  It didn’t take long for me to figure out that there was some civil unrest going on in the United Kingdom. I saw news of the events passing through my timeline with enough frequency to know that this is something serious. I didn’t realize how serious until I accidently looked up at the television [...]

Ladies and gentlemen, allow me to introduce you to yet another example of what it’s like for the working poor in America in 2011. Naturally if you’ve been following this site for some time you’ll know, that unemployment if high, there are millions still uninsured as health care costs continue to rise, and most importantly, [...]