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Stay The Course Or Change Directions Is The Question

by Dr. James Ewers, September 18, 2008

As Election Day approaches, we must decide whether characteristics will trump the issues of the day.  This conundrum makes for a slippery slope for some of us. Those of us that are voting age have participated in some local, state and national elections where we did not always vote for

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Black Voter disenfranchisement in 2008: Jim Crow Returns

by Dr. Christopher Metzler, September 11, 2008

The Michigan Messenger reported on Sept. 10, that, “The chairman of the Republican Party in Macomb County, Mich., a key swing county in a key swing state, is planning to use a list of foreclosed homes to block people from voting in the upcoming election as part of the state

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Obama Is Being Lifted Up by the Elders

by Dr. James Ewers, September 4, 2008

Sen. Barack Obama made reference to a preacher who made America better in his acceptance speech on Aug. 28, 2008, at the Democratic National Convention. Obama is now officially his party’s nominee to be president of the United States of America. Let’s not forget the "preacher” that Obama referred to was Dr.

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A Post-Racial America?

by Dr. Christopher Metzler, June 19, 2008

In a June 13, 2008 Op Ed in The Wall Street Journal, Ward Connerly proclaimed that “Obama is no ‘Post Racial’ Candidate. Connerly’s conclusion is based on the fact that Obama acknowledges the continuing significance of race in an ostensibly ‘post racial’ America. More importantly Obama does not support Connerly’s

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Barack Obama – On the Shoulders of the Nation’s Black Colleges?

by Dr. Marybeth Gasman, June 4, 2008

As I sat proudly with my 9-year old daughter last night and watched Barack Obama become the first Black nominee of a major political party, I couldn’t help but think about the role of our nation’s Black colleges in shaping and building the Black middle class. Even though Obama did

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