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Race-ing the gap between good health care coverage and great health

April 7, 2010 Comments Off

The recently passed health care reform bill, formally known as the Patient Protection and Affordable Care Act, will do much to support the health of people of color, not least through its expansion of Medicaid coverage to the near-poor and to childless adults mostly excluded from coverage previously. Businesses with more than 50 employees will [...]

A thorny question: Should American Indians and Alaska Natives buy their own health insurance?

April 6, 2010 Comments Off

The enactment of health care insurance reform raises a thorny (and complicated) question for Indian Country: Should American Indians and Alaska Natives eligible for services in the Indian health system buy their own insurance? The first answer ought to be a resounding “no.” Clearly the United States has an obligation for health care because of [...]

Incarcerated motherhood: “Precious” in real life

April 3, 2010 Comments Off

The information in this blog has been modified to protect my client and to comply with the Minnesota Rules of Professional Responsibility. When I launched my blog a year ago today I wrote, “My goal is to provide legal assistance to disenfranchised women and their families. This will benefit women who are leaving prison, and their [...]

Why “No Child Left Behind” fails under Obama, too

April 1, 2010 Comments Off

Originally published in Newsone The recent education reforms to No Child Left Behind proposed by the Obama Administration sadly perpetuate a flawed testing policy that will continue to leave our children behind. I have no problem with tests. Testing, when employed effectively, can be an appropriate way of gauging knowledge, reinforcing lessons and diagnosing learning [...]

Equal access doesn’t mean equal outcomes

April 1, 2010 Comments Off

Originally published at St. Louis Beacon In the wake of the health-care debate, I’ve been struck by the blanket criticism to federal programs, much of which lacks historical context. U.S. Rep. Paul Ryan, R-Wisc., said , “The proponents of this legislation reject an opportunity society and instead assume you are stuck in your station in [...]

The foolishness of politicians; the future of the progressive; The fantasies of the proletariat

March 30, 2010 Comments Off

WE ARE SERENADED and handled by sociopathically-skilled master paraders. The Good Cop/Bad Cop dynamic shuttles us from room to room eliciting the desired confession and appropriate gratitude. Meanwhile, the People dance and still struggle, while the sun turns Glen Beck’s tears into blood diamonds. THERE WILL BE NO MEANINGFUL IMMIGRATION REFORM. Not this year, and [...]

A Black Agenda some choose not to see

March 29, 2010 Comments Off

From where I sit–with more than three decades of experience working to make public policies more fair and inclusive of all people–the past year has seen tremendous investment in the African-American community right along the lines we laid out four years ago.

Black and Latino men pouring out

March 24, 2010 Comments Off

Stepping up and doing more to keep them in the academic pipeline On Friday, March 19, 2010 I presented at the Urban Male Conference sponsored by the College Now program, held at Baruch College of the City University of New York. There I presented to young men from 9th through 11th grades about navigating the [...]

So how about a little criminal justice?

March 23, 2010 Comments Off

I didn’t mean to write a blog post today, I really didn’t. But then I finally read that article my mom sent me two days ago from the New Haven Independent in New Haven, Connecticut. The one entitled Outraged Judge Reverses Murder Convictions. (Bless her good heart, but my mom has a funny way of [...]

For Esmin, what’s at stake with Health Care Reform

March 19, 2010 Comments Off

Every once in awhile, history sneaks up on us. In movements past, the sting of injustice couldn’t be clearer. Bold acts of violence interspersed within wide-ranging systems of injustice, made the steady march towards civil rights an obvious moral imperative in need of correction. Yet, somehow, the invisibility of human suffering replicated in the lives [...]

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