Colleges and universities have lost focus on their primary mission: educating young adults. They’ve strayed from their traditional role, and are instead engaging in wasteful spending. Today they demand that students pay for myriad non-educational services and activities, most often supported through “student activity fees,” “athletic fees” and other add-on charges that drastically inflate the…
There are manifold challenges and outright problems facing black America. Some can be addressed within the community while others are more complicated. But African-Americans have the power to begin work on meaningful change by simply refusing to accept form over substance. I refer specifically to the largely hollow discussion over the removal of the Confederate…
Kentucky Senator Rand Paul’s freshly minted presidential campaign is still looking for traction following the mainstream media’s manufactured headlines concerning his ill treatment of female reporters. While there are certainly many Republican primary voters who will appreciate and applaud his aggressive interview style, the media’s reshaping of events as new evidence of the GOP’s phony…
“Success is to be measured not so much by the position that one has reached in life as by the obstacles which he has overcome.” — Booker T. Washington Kay Coles James has been tried and tested by fire. At 71 years of age, there is little doubt that this African-American conservative woman has forgotten…
