Los Angeles There’s a point when people get numb. Not so much used to something as feeling it is inevitable. Reading the news about another school shooting, this time in suburban Houston where more young people were killed, I was most struck by a young woman who was interviewed while sheltered saying, “we wondered when …
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The Racism and Rural-Urban Divide Behind Work Requirement Exemptions
New Orleans Imposing work requirements to punish the poor seems to be spreading like a virus around the country. It’s an ugly, mean spirited kind of thing, but a closer look at the way state politicians are trying to carve out exemptions to these requirements reveals even more about the self-serving blindness behind the exemptions …
Bringing Our People to the Graduation Line – Go Pounce!
New Orleans What is “pounce?” I actually know, because I’ve spent time over a bunch of years in the downtown campus of Georgia State University. This blue panther head seems to be everywhere around the sprawling and expanding downtown campus. Walking from the parking lots up and down the hills in Atlanta near the capitol …