One of the most powerful acts against democracy is gerrymandering which is the political manipulation of electoral district boundaries to create an undue advantage for a party or group within the constituency. One primary form of gerrymandering is racial gerrymandering, which draws maps that favor White communities over Nonwhite communities. Every ten years following the … [Read more…]
A few days ago, U.S. Attorney General Merrick Garland accused the Minneapolis Police Department of a pattern of bias and excessive force, the product of a wide-ranging federal investigation into the department following the 2020 killing of George Floyd. Garland said the federal investigation revealed that long-standing problems existed in the department before that moment. … [Read more…]
As expected, Blacks and other minorities have borne the brunt of the COVID pandemic. The National Center for Health Statistics is releasing up-to-date death data for COVID-19-related deaths in response to the pandemic. These estimates of excess deaths—the number of deaths exceeding the normal average in recent years—include counts of deaths by race and Hispanic … [Read more…]
In 1999 an Associated Press panel voted Jim Brown the greatest football player of the 20th century. But he was more than that. For example, he is also considered the greatest-ever lacrosse player. Further, he is a strong candidate for the title of America’s best-ever all-around athlete. Brown attended Syracuse University (1953-57), where he was … [Read more…]
The great football superstar, Jim Brown, joined the ancestors a few days ago. Let’s make note of one of his not-so-well-known achievements. Jim Brown was the greatest all-around athlete in Syracuse University’s history and arguably the greatest in American history. I will have more to say about that in a later article. While Brown’s legacy … [Read more…]