There is nothing that I can say about the shooting of Michael Brown that hasn’t been said before by people whose experience affords them a perspective and an authenticity that I lack for the simple reason that I am white…. Read More ›
Affirmative Action
Following in Potentially Vanishing Footsteps: A Latina’s Journey From LA to an Ivy & Back Again
Author’s Note: I thought this piece might have particular significance in light of the Supreme Court’s 6-2 majority decision to allow the state of Michigan, and by extension all states, the right to enact legislation banning the use of consideration… Read More ›
An Action Without Affirmation
It might be thought of as unwise to base a tenet of one’s life philosophy on a comic strip, but when the comic in question is Calvin & Hobbes and the author Bill Watterson, I think that an exception should… Read More ›
Are We There Yet? Affirmative Action in America
There is a brutal irony in the fact that the potential legal grounding for the disassembling of affirmative action programs in our nation’s colleges lies in The 14th Amendment and in The Civil Rights Act of 1964, two pieces of… Read More ›
