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Time to Eradicate Hazing Culture
In a column at Diverse Issues in Higher Education, Florida A&M University graduate Ibram H. Rogers says that university officials and lawmakers should seek to eradicate the hazing culture in the aftermath of Robert Champion’s death instead of looking to place blame. For years, people have looked the other way in the name of this…
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Father Figures
My father grew up without his father. Actually, he’s not entirely sure it was his biological father, but in any case, the man left when my father was 6 years old. Growing up without a father had a devastating effect on his material and emotional well-being, and he constantly tells me about the hardships he…
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Our Unpaid Debt to Haiti
When we started talking about Haiti, my usually goofy and jocular college homeboy turned gloomy. Every word and every movement a brew of desperation and despair. When he lived in Haiti in the 1980s, everyone seemed to be poor but at least they had food, he told me. But times have changed and folks are…
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To Protect and Serve?
Even before the car stopped, the police officers began swarming out of their own cars. They snatched the three young black men out of their vehicle, threw them onto the ground in the streets of North Philadelphia, and for more than 30 seconds kicked and punched and swung billy clubs, brutalizing, torturing and dehumanizing the…
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A Stone-Faced Lie on the Mall
The night before he was assassinated in 1968, Dr. Martin Luther King Jr. famously roared that he had “been to the mountaintop” and he had “seen the promised land” of freedom, justice, and equality. That spirit in the final phase of King’s life has been captured brilliantly by Chinese sculptor, Lei Yixin, who was commissioned…
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