The crisis in Baltimore is an event that I’ve been trying to avoid as long as possible. It was not that I did not care about the struggle that African-Americans face in this country, nor was it because I felt that we as blacks were powerless to enact he change that we have been […]
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A Note to White America
Filed Under: African American, Opinion Pieces! Tagged With: america, baltimore, blacks, Eric Gardner, freddie gray, freedom, government, oppression, race, slavery, trayvon martin, white
Yale Invites Criticism for its Foray into Asia
About 2 years ago, Yale University, in New Haven, CT, ‘climbed into bed’ (I quote Yale Daily News) with what many consider one of Southeast Asia’s most despotic authoritarian-democracy regimes, Singapore. The Ivy League college had partnered with the National University of Singapore to create Yale’s satellite campus and Singapore’s first liberal arts college (LAC), […]
Filed Under: Education Tagged With: authoritarian, criticism, debate, democracy, education, freedom, human-rights, ivy league, liberal, liberal arts, new haven, politics, protest, singapore, yale university, yale-nus college