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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…

UNCONDITIONAL LOVE FOR THE BLACK MALE ATHLETE

January 13, 2017

Every few weeks or so we have this conversation.  There seems no better time to have it again than now, on the heels of college football bowl games that included athletes who have been accused of acts of violence against…

NOTRE DAME’S WALK- ON ‘RUDY’ INCOGNITO

January 7, 2017

The male “walk-on” in college sports, and in particular in football, has become a joke.  Announcers voraciously proclaim that Joe Blow or John Caric is or was just a walk on but now performs at a level above and beyond…

A Letter to my Feminist Daughter….

November 13, 2016

I talked to you the day after the election and you asked me, how was Donald Trump elected President of the United States?  How, you asked me, did tens of millions of Americans vote for an unqualified, unprepared, inexperienced man instead…

THEY ALL COME HOME: Returning Home From Jail or Prison

October 2, 2016

When Lamar M. exited the bus arriving at the New York City Port Authority from the Clinton Correctional Facility in the Village of Dannemora, upstate New York, he was lost. The last time he was in the city was 15…

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