| Aug 14, 2013 | Rights / DemocracyAre you tired of hearing nothing but the corporate news and mainstream views on commercial, mass-market radio? Well, go get your own station! That’s not as preposterous as it might sound, thanks to a freelance, free-range, free-form collective of mostly young...
| Aug 13, 2013 | Rights / DemocracyWell, finally! Hard-right congressional leaders and the Obama White House ultimately agreed that interest rates on student loans should not double to nearly 7 percent, as they let happen early in July. Instead, college students will be billed at a rate that will...
| Aug 7, 2013 | Rights / DemocracyThe world of radio is experiencing a shake-up. The country’s second-biggest radio network recently announced it may cancel Rush Limbaugh’s show on 40 of its major-market stations. This might not be enough to get Rush off the air altogether, but it’s...
| | Rights / DemocracyThe immediate response to the verdict in the George Zimmerman trial on my campus was a mixture of outrage and frustration. A reaction of this kind isn’t surprising at a historically black university, especially here at North Carolina A&T State University....
| | Rights / DemocracyIn another America — where democracy reigns and government respects freedom of the press, protects privacy, and honors whistleblowers — Bradley Manning would receive a presidential pardon. After campaigning for the presidency last year, I was asked by my supporters to...
| | Rights / DemocracyThere I was, sitting at my desk and looking out of the window — you know, writing — when my wife came in and plopped down a newspaper article in front of me. “Read that,” she said with a cruel twinkle in her eye. It was an article on Detroit by George...
