Perils of Social Media and Free Speech
Image by Gerd Altmann from Pixabay With the suspension of President Donald Trump’s accounts on Twitter and Facebook, much focus
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Earl Yarington
Craziness Is the Cure: Why the Literary Matters
Image by StockSnap from Pixabay When I first read Walt Whitman’s “Out of the Cradle Endlessly Rocking,” I hated it.
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Let’s Mess with Texas: How Netflix Cuties’ Indictment will Criminalize Little Girls
Image by Tumisu from Pixabay On September 23, a Texas grand jury returned an indictment on Netflix for the film
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Once-Passionate ‘Seminal’-Driven College Professor Fails College
Image by Ulrike Mai from Pixabay “Are you still in your office?” Moment’s later, I heard a knock on the
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Anal boils, bone spurs and heroic losers, what the US has become
One sign of a democratic and ethical society is how it protects its most vulnerable. As I have written in past articles, the U.S. often and deliberately fails its children by throwing money only at predominantly rich and white school district neighborhoods while leaving the most vulnerable children warehoused or “schooled” but not educated.
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Ruth Bader Ginsburg’s Death Spells the Death of American Democracy
Let’s be very clear about the death of Ruth Bader Ginsburg. Her death is exactly what the GOP hoped for. Republican leaders waited years for such an opportunity. Master politician and strategist Mitch McConnell has nearly absolute power over the Senate.
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BLM and Harlem: What the Renaissance Should Teach Us
In an offensive post by one of the professional forums I belong to, I heard the often-typical mischaracterization that all
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Stuck in the Middle: How Education Contributes to the Business of Inequality
It was not how any of us wanted the school year to end. There, in yellow bags, were the leftovers
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We Need Our National Day Of Mourning
Covid-19 is a brutal evaluator, and the painful grips of racism and division are not absent from its reach. We are in pain. We are angry. We are hurt. We are scared.
Read moreHello America, crime is not symptomatic
Whenever I get that flier from a politician, you know the one with kids on it, I throw it out
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