| Aug 10, 2016 | Rights / DemocracyMost media coverage of racial injustice has understandably focused on our country’s unfair policing and criminal justice system. But to fully understand the current reality of racial inequality in America, we also need to take an honest look at our nation’s shocking...
| Jul 13, 2016 | Rights / DemocracyWhen I heard about the police shootings of Alton Sterling and Philando Castile, I thought back to another name etched into American history: Dred Scott. In 1857, the Supreme Court was tasked with deciding whether Scott, an African American man born into slavery,...
| Apr 13, 2016 | Rights / DemocracyThis spring, the University of Wisconsin-Madison campus has been the site of several heinous acts of racism: An Asian student was spat on and a black student received a note with obscenities and racial slurs slipped under her door. The university is, of course, taking...
| Mar 2, 2016 | Rights / DemocracyThousands of Marylanders will regain the right to cast their ballots this election year, thanks to the state’s lawmakers. The Maryland House and Senate recently voted to override a veto by Governor Larry Hogan to ensure that ex-offenders will automatically get their...
| Feb 10, 2016 | Rights / DemocracyAs the rest of the nation celebrates Black History Month this February, I’m taking a graduate level course I call “Dead White Men.” It’s actually a classic theory class that covers a number of influential thinkers, like free market theorist Adam Smith and the...
