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Black Athletes Protest Movements

December 31, 2017

Earl Smith, PhD               Angela J. Hattery, PhD   On June 4, 1967 at 105-15 Euclid Ave. in Cleveland,  Jim Brown, Ali, Lou Alcindor (Kareem Abdul Jabbar) and other prominent Black athletes held their “summit”…

New Book: Policing The Black Body

November 11, 2017

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Orenthal James Simpson (OJ): Cultural Hero Redux

September 16, 2017

by Earl Smith, PhD and Angela J. Hattery, PhD   He deceived us once.  Will he do it again? Orenthal James “O. J. ” Simpson, nicknamed “the Juice” is a former NCAA Collegiate football hero –having won the coveted Heisman…

Male Athletes and Sexual Violence Against Women

August 27, 2017

Ray Rice poster athlete for violence against women. by Earl Smith and Angela J. Hattery Boys Behaving Badly? Not really. They are simply doing what is accepted in their sport culture. Since the late 1990s scholars have been chronicling the…

White people have an addiction problem, Black people have a crime problem

July 16, 2017

Dozens of studies conducted over the last several decades have demonstrated unequivocally that drug use rates are remarkably consistent across racial groups.  In other words, Blacks and whites use drugs at the same rates.   What differs is the kinds…

Prisoners are Smart: But Not Smart Enough to Stay Out of Prison

July 12, 2017

Everyone knows that prisoners are smart. What everyone does not know is that they are not smart enough to remain free once released With approximately 2.3 million in American jails and prisons –and almost all of them returning home at…

There is an “ordinariness” to the police murders of Black men

June 23, 2017

                  By Earl Smith, PhD and Angela J. Hattery, PhD Since August 26, 2016 when Colin  Kaepernick (who at that time was a San Francisco 49er quarterback) started taking a knee during…

In Black & White: The Violent Sexual Predator Crossing the Colorline

June 22, 2017

Angela J.Hattery, PhD & Earl Smith, PhD (2017) We have a theory.  Serial sexual male predators like Bill Cosby (1) Bill O’Reilly (2) and Darren Sharper (3) play out their violent fantasies often going after innocent women of a race…

Capacity…

April 8, 2017

  I recently participated in a program, Dear World, in which we were asked to identify a message that we wanted to share with the world and write it on our bodies to be photographed.   I had arrived at…

The Meaning of the Women’s March

January 20, 2017

Many people may wrongly assume that the Women’s March, the day after the inauguration of Donald Trump is about having our feelings hurt or being vindictive that “our” candidate didn’t win.  And, though many of us, myself included did have…

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