‘Issues & Ideas’ Articles

From the Miami Herald, one young woman, Fabiola Fleuranvil, fights the cynicism of her peers and refuses to leave Miami behind. Full Article

From the Huffinton Post – Columbia University president and great American legal scholar Lee C. Bollinger recently published in the LA Times an editorial on the moral obligation for the Supreme Court to uphold affirmative action in admissions processes at public universities. At stake, diversity requirements at many of America’s Full Article

From the Huffington Post – WASHINGTON — If the Senate were  representative of the U.S. population, 13 of its 100 members would be African-American. But there have been only six black senators in the country’s history. Right now, there are zero. And it will likely remain that way after the 2012 elections, since none of the Full Article

From the Huffington Post – An estimated 700,000 young minority voters could be barred from voting in November because of photo ID laws passed across the country in recent years, according to a new study. The number of minority voters under the age of 30 likely to be disenfranchised by these new voting laws — Full Article

From the Huffington Post – Once again, images of squirming infants struggling to hold on to their first minutes of life and stories of newborns shaking from withdrawal in neonatal intensive care units have reclaimed media attention. It seems history is repeating itself as outlets from theNew York Times to Time to the Associated Full Article

From the Huffington Post – While a degree certainly provides graduates with an edge in the job market, unemployment statistics have repeatedly shown that one’s race plays a role in securing employment. As of March 2012, African American graduates encountered a rate of 10.8 percent, according to a report by the Economic Policy Institute. Full Article

From the Grio – Sometimes I feel bombarded by the negative images of women who look like me, especially on reality television.  But two weeks of Olympics coverage was like a breath of fresh air – a reality show of its own, complete with a cast of talented, beautiful, triumphant African-American women.  In a world Full Article

From the Huffington Post – Viviette Applewhite, a 93-year-old African-American woman from Philadelphia, suddenly cannot vote. Although she once marched with the Rev. Martin Luther King Jr. for the right to do so, and has dutifully cast a ballot for five decades, in this election year she may be denied this basic right. Under Full Article

From The Huffington Post – Supreme Court Justice Louis Brandeis once said, “We can have democracy in this country, or we can have great wealth concentrated in the hands of a few, but we can’t have both.” When we look at the state of our union and the state of America’s children in 2012, his Full Article

From the Huffington Post – Former CNN host T.J. Holmes was pulled over on Monday, and documented the experience over Twitter. Holmes did not indiciate where he was driving, but tweeted that he was pulled over one mile from his house with two cop cars behind him. He snapped a photograph of a police car in his rear view mirror with Full Article