When research, history, and allegory all converge to tell us the same story, we must pause to ask why we have ignored the message for so long and why are we likely to continue missing the essential thing before us. The New York Times and Education Week reveal two important lessons in both the message […]
Picture of the campus of the University of Maryland http://www.blogtalkradio.com/umd-bfsa/2012/03/05/students-fighting-workplace-abuse-at-university-of-maryland This episode we spoke to Tim Baldauf, a student at the University of Maryland, who is fighting to help end workplace abuses at the school he attends—University of Maryland. This interview he breaks down some important issues and why he (and many other students) felt […]
by Solomon Comissiong The US “Occupy Movement” continues to raise Americans consciousness regarding a number of critical social issues and inequities, including the vast wealth disparity within the so-called “Land of the Free and Home of the Brave”. The US version of the movement began on Wall Street and has now spread throughout numerous cities […]
http://www.blogtalkradio.com/your-world-news/2011/09/12/students-fighting-to-end-mass-incarceration Please join us this episode as we discussed Mass Incarceration within the United States and its institutionally racist roots, with Benjamin Woods. Benjamin Woods is the co-founder of Students Against Mass Incarceration at Howard University. Benjamin also discussed SAMI’s recent Town Hall Forum on the New Jim Crown—Mass Incarceration of Black People in America. […]
The past several months have marked the University of Maryland (College Park), with turmoil, struggle, pain, and solidarity. This all stems from the reprehensible climate of racial discrimination, sexual abuse and mistreatment that many employees are met with each time they step on campus. Most of these employees are housekeepers, custodial staff, and facilities workers. Many […]
By - Jesse Strecker The median wealth of white households is 20 times larger than that of Black households, and 18 times larger than that of Latino families, a report published by the Pew Research Center shows. This is the biggest difference that the Census has found in the 25 years that it has collected […]
As I wrote at dailycensored.com on July 7th, 2011: “In recent months, University of Maryland, College Park (UMD) facilities employees (custodial staff, housekeepers, groundskeepers, facilities workers, etc.) have likened their work conditions to those of a “plantation” and “Nazi camp.” One UMD employee stated: “I’m surprised someone hasn’t come in with a gun or a […]
On Friday July 15th, 2011 at 7:00 PM in the Nyumburu Cultural Center (www.nyumburu.umd.edu), the Black Faculty and Staff Association (www.bfsa.umd.edu) on the campus of the University of Maryland will be hosting the Fourth Solidarity Forum for Workers Rights and Respect. You are all encouraged and welcome to attend this important solidarity based event. As […]
Click the link below to listen to the show. http://www.blogtalkradio.com/your-world-news/2011/06/30/lynching-rape-and-lies-in-libya Please join us this episode as we were joined by Dr. Randy Short and Mr. Navid Nasr for an important dialogue on the continued destructive US government, and Western media, propaganda scheme regarding Libya. The US government and corporate media continue to openly and financially […]