Diversity

Eyes in My Eyes

Terry Marotta | Posted 07.04.2008 | Living


Terry Marotta

I had a lesson in diversity last week in New Orleans, where I found myself so completely out of my element that when a couple of young women kept calling me "Ma'am" I took their tone for sarcastic.

Why Are Many Americans Looking for Change?

Rick Smolan | Posted 06.24.2008 | Living


Rick Smolan

Those who fear we are losing our individualism couldn't be more wrong: Americans have never been more free to create and recreate themselves; it's this complexity that determines who we are.

Russert's Legacy: A Woman Meeting the Press?

Marie Wilson | Posted 06.20.2008 | Media


Marie Wilson

Visibility is viability, and wouldn't it be great to have Meet the Press, the most prestigious and hard hitting show on the Sunday circuit, feature a woman host?

White Male Pundit Power

Ari Melber | Posted 06.09.2008 | Media


Ari Melber

The elite opinion media continues to employ, groom and promote a commentators corps that is disproportionately white and male.

DNC Thinks LGBT Has Too Many Letters?

Bil Browning | Posted 05.30.2008 | Media


Bil Browning

The list of credentialed blogs to cover the Democratic National Convention was released this evening and Bilerico Project was denied credentials. Con...

The Israel I Was Fighting For

Amitai Etzioni | Posted 05.13.2008 | Politics


Amitai Etzioni

Sixty years ago, when I was fighting for Israel during its war of independence, I won a lot of respect. Now many of my liberal colleagues, including Jewish ones, raise their eyebrows.

Are You Now or Have You Ever Been?

Ivan Katz | Posted 04.10.2008 | Living


Ivan Katz

Arts organizations in Britain applying for grants from the Arts Council "are being asked to state how many board members are bisexual, homosexual, heterosexual, lesbian or whose inclinations are 'not known.'"

Native Plants Belong in Native Habitats

Paige Donner | Posted 04.03.2008 | Living


Paige Donner

Only 7% of insects can eat non-native plants. Without insects to convert plant material to proteins most higher land animal life forms will go extinct.A California native oak tree can support over 400 different kinds of insects. A Norway maple, for example, supports nothing.

Diversity: Is It A Bad Thing?

Newsweek | Eboo Patel | Posted 04.02.2008 | Living


The first thing my wife and I comment on when we go to a restaurant or a park is the diversity. We generally want more. We're part of a generation of ...

Forty Years On: Kerner and the Liberal Media

John Ridley | Posted 02.29.2008 | Media


John Ridley

For all the areas of society in which blacks -- and by extension all minorities -- have enjoyed some measure of parity, there is one glaring and ironic omission: the very media which is so often accused of having a liberal bias.

Why Are So Many Bigshot Political Reporters Apologizing Now?

Eric Deggans | Posted 02.14.2008 | Media


Eric Deggans

The presence of a black man and woman as important presidential candidates is forcing these guys to rethink how they talk about politics. And some of them are failing miserably.

Christmas Does Not Belong in the Workplace

Penelope Trunk | Posted 12.16.2007 | Business


Penelope Trunk

Those of us who have no reason to celebrate it have to spend a month between Thanksgiving and New Year's dealing with Christmas at work.

FCC Chairman Martin Maintains That he is Only Interested in Creating More Media Competition, Diversity, and Localism

Norman Horowitz | Posted 11.03.2007 | Home


Norman Horowitz

Before you do anything else check out this link. Now please read .the following: This has been excerpted from Chairman Martin's recent address ...

What Studies Might Show

Ed Whitfield | Posted 09.20.2007 | Politics


Ed Whitfield

Claims are made that the cause of black student underachievement is the imbalance of school populations. This doesn't make any sense to me, and no study could show otherwise.


 

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