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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…
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…
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…
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…
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…
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…
We are thrilled to announce the publication of our newest book, the 2nd Edition of the Social Dynamics of Family Violence! The ONLY book on the market that examines all forms of family violence–child abuse, elder abuse, intimate partner violence,…
So, this week a large Southeast university made the decision to accept a $30 million dollar gift in exchange for re-naming the law school after recently deceased Supreme Court Justice Antonin Scalia. There have been a variety of negative…
As a writer, I tend to process difficult things by writing about them….and so I turn to this outlet as a way to process the death of a dear friend who died much to soon….. Earl and I first…
Introduction This post is not about the politically charged term “Black-On-Black-Crime.” Rather, it is about the early life death –or YEARS OF LIFE LOST (ILL)–of young black men between the ages of 15 and 34. Most of whom are killed…