As the 2024 election cycle nears the end, the Democratic Party finds itself at a crucial crossroads in reaching Black men who often feel overlooked. With Kamala Harris as the first Black woman presidential nominee, the campaign has emphasized key issues like inflation, abortion rights, diversity, and the middle class. However, in recent weeks, Kamala Harris has ramped up efforts to reach out to Black men who feel marginalized and excluded from the political conversation. While the 2024 election is still up for grabs, Harris and the Democratic Party will have to look beyond this election to ensure consistency engagement with Black men that feel left out.
Read MoreThanks to the U.S. Supreme Court’s decision last June in Students for Fair Admissions v. Harvard, the country’s 12th graders now applying to selective colleges face unprecedented angst—especially if they’re black.
You face an admissions process where your understanding of race and racism has been rejected, forbidden as a factor in considering you, on no less than constitutional grounds. Forget “affirmative action” that might deliberately correct for the persistent effects of longstanding racial exclusion from majority-white institutions. Forget societal discrimination—the Court already decided there is none that matters. Now, educational “diversity” is a barely lawful interest for schools to consider. Your race and all that comes with it is in unconstitutional territory.
Except on your personal essay.
Read MoreWhat's the feeling behind the structures that promote gentrification? This essay explores the background and personal impact of gentrification dynamics in New York, Washington, D.C. and Los Angeles to show how place-based inequality affects personhood.
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A new type of person has emerged across the nation: “diverse” humans. If you haven’t seen many of us — I am one — in your institution, workplace or school, that’s because the effort to include “diverse” students, engineers, actors, executives or other candidates is still trying to gain traction.
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Metropolitan equity is the idea that all parts of a region are relevant to the distribution of opportunity in any part of that region. As CLiME continues our work on metropolitan equity in the Greater Newark Area, we invite our readers to help us define the geographical boundaries of the Greater Newark Area.
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