Segregation of schools is still occurring although the practice was ordered unconstitutional after the Brown v. the Board of Education case in 1954. Blacks were given equal access to the same facilities used by whites after this historic ruling that nullified the “separate but equal” verdict of the Plessey v. Ferguson trial of 1896. Fifty-six [...]

The Black Panther legacy lives on Imbaseni, Tanzania. An article today in the Wall Street Journal, discusses the work of two proud Panthers, Pete O’Neal and his wife Charlotte. The couple hosts students and volunteers at their home in Tanzania. People who visit the couple are those who are “seeking to understand the peculiar history [...]

The world’s water is running out–unless we take steps to ensure that future generations will have access to clean, safe water.

  Yesterday’s 7.2 magnitude earthquake in Baja California  is an alarming addition to the apocalyptic extremes in natural disasters. Immediately following the earthquake in Haiti this past January were incredible landslides in Peru at Macchu Picchu. The Mudslides at Machu Picchu were barely discussed in the newspapers as reporters and journalists were focused on the [...]

Sharks have been venerated by Native Hawaiians for centuries. The two are intertwined so tightly that endangered sharks means endangered Hawaiian culture. As the sharks are hunted, the Hawaiian culture also finds itself under attack. The declining shark population was a topic of conversation at the Convention on International Trade in Endangered Species of Wild [...]

On March 27, 2010 the Ambassador of Chile Heraldo Munoz hosted a permanent representative’s soccer match to raise funds for Chilean earthquake victims.  Permanent representatives are leaders of a diplomatic mission to an international organization. If you were standing at the sideline of the soccer field on Saturday, you wouldn’t recognize these gentlemen who are [...]

Yesterday, I attended a forum on the “The Darfur Conflict: The Use and Impact of Sexual Violence as a Weapon of War”. The event was hosted by Fordham University’s Leitner Center for International Law and Justice. The speaker, Ms. Joe Read, is the Darfur Fellow at Physician for Human Rights. Ms. Read has done extensive [...]

On March 2, 2010, Cardinal George of Chicago announced the beginning of the canonization process of Father Augustine Tolton. Father Tolton was better known by his parishioners as “Good Father Gus”. He was the first black priest in the U.S. and he ministered to black Catholics in Chicago’s South Side. Cardinal Francis E. George commented [...]

Lorena Bobbit is the Ecuadorian woman who is now widely known because of her reaction to years of physical, mental and sexual abuse. After the Lorena Bobbit story, feminists and women’s rights groups rallied to defend her. The Bobbit case was one of the first few scandalous incidents that brought about discussion and a name for “marital rape”. Rappers [...]

There are so many ideas of what men and women should be based on their respective sex. Ciara’s song Just Like A Boy and Beyonce’s If I Were a Boy, imagine scenarios were gender roles are reversed. The line between male and female characteristics is always toed with caution. But as I write the Herstory [...]

Coverage of the country of Haiti has steadily declined since the tragic earthquake on January 12, 2010. What has continued and been exacerbated since that world tragedy are the unspoken herstories of Haiti’s women. Historically, women have had little to no rights in the country of Haiti. It is a male-dominated culture with strong and [...]

According to a report published by Forbes.com on March 10, 2010, there are only two women listed among the world’s top 24 billionaires. We women still have quite a lot of work to do. On June 9, 2009, a Forbes report discussing the wealth of Abigail Johnson, the writer Steven Bertoni noted that: “Like a majority of [...]