Re-envisioning the Two Party System
Published in BlackCommentator, November 19, 2022 The prediction of a mid-term red wave has petered out. In survival mode, most working-class voters don’t remember one election to the next unless it’s really memorable. Like the election of the first Black president. Some of us do have a memory of the Republican wave of 2010 that […]
Facing the Reality of a Black School Shooter
Published by BlackCommentator.com, October 27, 2022 St. Louis is now facing a situation that very few predominantly Black cities have had to face in the last fifty years – an African American youth bringing violence into a school building. Having been in, out and around public school classrooms for decades, my experience has been no matter how […]
Putting a Cost to Domestic Violence
Published in Capital City Hues, October 17, 2022 I was intrigued when I heard about the new study in Wisconsin that had attempted the difficult task of putting a dollar amount to the cost of domestic violence. Difficult because we know many cases go unreported and we just can’t assess what we don’t know. The report was […]