Where are the FEMINISTS?

  I love this comment: “Visibly missing/ Deafeningly silent on this issue: 1. White feminists 2. White feminists who love to complain that black women like Michelle Obama &/or Beyonce are not feminist enough 3. Minority groups who continually ask Black people to speak up for their cause (Immigrant Associations, LGBTQ Associations, non-black Muslim organizations…

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James Baldwin Debates William F. Buckley – 1965

One thing I’d love to do over the next few years is to be a moderator of a series of debates. I love intellectual challenges and enjoy hearing different points of view. It would be great to get public intellectuals with various points of view in a room and find out where there might be…

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The Myth Of The Deadbeat Dad

From the wild Irish slums of the 19th-century Eastern seaboard, to the riot-torn suburbs of Los Angeles, there is one unmistakable lesson in American history: a community that allows large numbers of young men to grow up in broken families, dominated by women, never acquiring any stable relationship to male authority, never acquiring any set…

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Marriage and The Single Black Woman

Removing so many men from the marriage market has profound consequences. As incarceration rates exploded between 1970 and 2007, the proportion of US-born black women aged 30-44 who were married plunged from 62% to 33%. Why this happened is complex and furiously debated. The era of mass imprisonment began as traditional mores were already crumbling,…

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