With apologies to Mark Twain, the reports of my death are greatly exaggerated…yes, it has been quite a while since my last post, but no, I have not shuffled off this mortal coil as yet, and will not for many years to come. I do want to thank everyone for their thoughts, prayers and well […]
It’s February, Do You Know Where Your History Is?
It’s February. The shortest month of the year, and all across this great land of ours, copies of Reverend Martin Luther King, Jr.’s speeches and Langston Hughes poems are dusted off, opened gingerly and read for these 28(29) days as an acknowledgement of diversity and inclusiveness…only to be returned to their cobwebbed bookshelves and dusty […]
The Impact of Public Sector Layoffs on African Americans
In the past year, state and local governments have shed over 142,000 jobs, according to the Labor Department. An article recently reprinted in the Pioneer Press suggests that this downsizing of the public sector is hitting middle class African Americans especially hard: Although the continuing economic downturn has been devastating to the American middle class […]