| 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...
| Feb 3, 2016 | Editors Picks|Rights / DemocracyCarter G. Woodson was born in Virginia, 10 years after the fall of the Confederacy. Working as a sharecropper and a miner, he rarely had time to attend school until the age of 20. But he sure made up for lost time. Woodson would devote the rest of his life to...
| Dec 9, 2015 | Rights / DemocracyI’m white. So is Donald Trump. I work as a teaching assistant in a sociology course on race while I pursue a PhD. Trump alone provides enough material to supply half my curriculum. Over the years, he’s said he thinks he’d be better off if he were “a...
| Sep 30, 2015 | Rights / DemocracyThe Republican Party has struggled for years to attract more voters of color. In a recent campaign appearance, candidate Jeb Bush offered yet another useful case study of how not to do it. At a campaign stop in South Carolina, the former Florida governor was asked how...
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