Bill Clinton once said, “The worst thing you can do in life is to underestimate your adversary.” Clinton was wrong. The worst thing you can do is underestimate a friend’s potential to become an enemy. When the smallest of the few actively oppose the overwhelming view of the people that…

Corruption has become so rooted in America’s legal system that its poison is being inflicted on the Nation’s institutions responsible for exercising autonomous dominion over areas of human activity in the control of its programs. An environment where citizens can legitimately maintain engagement in federal and state programs is practically…

Lauren Boebert’s racist, anti-Muslim, and xenophobic behavior only reflects the normalization of Islamophobia by the Republican Party that has been going on for 20 years. Still, it is too easy to shrug it off as evidence of the evolution of close-mindedness on the political right. While the lines between fascism…

The United States is moving through a time of extreme and insensible change in attitudes toward race, with a significant number of citizens coming to grips with the deeply embedded historical legacy of racist structures and ideals. Avowed white supremacists have commandeered a presidential election, utilize campaign rhetoric to eliminate…

America has misappropriated King’s legacy, whitewashed King’s message, and distorted the meaning of his movement, which was not only to remedy the crimes of the past but to rise above them. Without equal rights, we are powerless to change our place and have fairness under the law. So, why is…

Whatever the Supreme Court decides, in all likelihood, it will continue to overlook a truth that it has dismissed since before the “right to choose” became a contested topic: “If it’s good for the goose, why isn’t it good for the gander?” Like abortions, vasectomies are usually performed in a…

More than a decade later, Chris Cuomo apologized to Shelley Ross for inappropriately touching her sixteen years ago. When is enough, enough, or apology accepted? Sexual harassment includes unwelcome sexual advances, requests for sexual favors, and other verbal or physical harassment of a sexual nature in the workplace or learning…

Women Without A Movement — Kābul River, in eastern Afghanistan and northwestern Pakistan, is 435 miles long, of which 350 miles are in Afghanistan. The Kābul River valley is known for more than a natural route for travel between Afghanistan and Pakistan; a riverbed became a graveyard for women caught in a powerful undertow from…

We were the darker people in the house. We cooked the food, set the table with the freshly signed silverware, lifted those heavy trays that barely made it inside the fancy main dining room, and then the master sent “the help” to eat what was leftover in the kitchen. What…