Editorials

A recent Washington Post article, “Surge of international applicants at elite white colleges,” reported that academic institutions such as Harvard, Yale, Princeton, Massachusetts Institute of Technology, Dartmouth, etc. have experienced a large increase in international applications to attend their institutions. Since 2020 applications have increased 34%. One factor of this is their dropping of SAT and ACT score requirements.

Throughout my life, I have been blessed with family and friends who have admonished me to be a critical thinker.  Not only was I challenged to think, but to think with clarity, appropriate urgency, and logic.  The old idea of being one who thought “while others were sleeping” was not lost on me.

It is not hard to forget that in 2011 when the mission to kill Osama bin Laden was authorized, Barack Obama was president, and Donald Trump was still a private citizen. Yet, during a recent Trump rally in Michigan, U.S. Rep. Lisa McClain falsely claimed that Donald Trump “caught” Osama bin Laden.

The last two years have underlined what we already knew: the digital divide in America is real and has consequences for millions of Americans.

I do this thing in my head with President Joe Biden. When he gets on my nerves, I often call him President.

(TriceEdneyWire.com) - Judge Ketanji Brown Jackson made history this week when the U.S. Senate confirmed her nomination as a U.S. Supreme Court Justice. That is cause for celebration.

Currently, there is a campaign, the 30×30 campaign — a commitment by police departments to try innovative things to have 30% of their sworn personnel be women by 2030. Right now, nationally, on average, about 15% of sworn officers are women.

"From the first settlers who came to our shores, from the first American Indian families who befriended them, men and women have worked together to build this nation. Too often the women were unsung and sometimes their contributions went unnoticed. But the achievements, leadership, courage, strength, and love of the women who built America was as vital as that of the men whose names we know so well …

Anti-democratic authoritarianism is on the rise–both around the world and here at home. Sometimes it is easier to recognize overseas. That’s especially true at moments like this when Vladimir Putin’s military is killing civilians in Ukraine to feed his ambitions for greater power and is crushing any effort at dissent or truth-telling in his native Russia.

While National Pay Equity Day came earlier this year than last, meaning that the gender pay gap is narrowing, the general pay equity day does not address the pay differences that Black, Latina, Asian, and Native American women earn.