Updates
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…
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…
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…
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…
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…
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…
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…