by David Morse | Uncategorized
Some good news to report here. Al Jazeera America covers the Black Workers Center in Los Angeles, which not only provides jobs and skills training, but also trains black workers to be labor advocates. Unemployment for African Americans is roughly double that of...
by David Morse | Uncategorized
“This bill that we will sign today is not a revolutionary bill. It does not affect the lives of millions,” President Lyndon Johnson said at the signing ceremony of the Immigration and Nationality Act fifty years ago today. “It will not reshape the...
by David Morse | Uncategorized
It’s the first day of autumn, the time for pumpkin spice lattes everywhere you look. And Oktoberfest. But aside from that festival, there’s not much German culture celebrated in the U.S., according to the New York Times. Indeed, with approximately 46...
by David Morse | In the News
We Americans live in interesting times. It’s been fifty years since the Voting Rights Act was passed, and fifty years since the infamous Watts riots in Los Angeles; fifty years have gone by since the mid-point of the “decade that changed everything” – the 1960s....
by David Morse | In the News
Remember back in 2012, when Barack Obama won re-election and his Republican challenger, Mitt Romney, captured an anemic share of the Latino vote? The Republican national party did a post-mortem on what went wrong, and came up with a must-do prescription: reach out to...
by David Morse | In the News, Uncategorized
Megyn Kelly finally asked the race question, more than halfway through Thursday night’s Republican debate. Many in the Black Lives Matter movement, and beyond, believe that overly-aggressive police officers targeting young African Americans is the civil rights issue...
by David Morse | In the News
On any given week it would have been the top story. But in a week dominated by the momentous nuclear agreement reached with Iran and another horrific mass shooting, President Obama’s visit to a federal prison in Oklahoma didn’t get quite the attention it warranted....
by David Morse | In the News, Uncategorized
It’s been about a week since the Supreme Court’s momentous decision making same sex marriage legal in all fifty states. I’m ecstatic. I’ve been ecstatic since I heard the news. But reality is starting to settle in. It’s not quite time to spike...
by David Morse | Uncategorized
Without more information, it’s hard to know what to make of a study that shows Black kids are less likely to get pain meds in the ER than White kids. From NBC News: The researchers used national survey data from 2003 to 2010, covering more than 900,000 children...
by David Morse | Uncategorized
According to a new study, it is. The study published in Archives of Sexual Behavior entitled “Is Sexual Racism Really Racism?” took a look at gay and bisexual men and their dating preferences and found results that could have implications for the general public. The...
