Bay Area Rapid Transit (BART) officials are taking heat for turning off electricity on cellular towers in four of its stations during rush hour on Friday (8/12).  Apparently, the move was necessary to prevent a group calling itself No Justice, No BART from using mobile devices to coordinate platform demonstrations against transit police over the killings of black men. Although some critics have accused BART of using Hosni Mubarak tactics to… [Continue Reading]

Racial double standards have no place in America, especially when it comes to the classification of racial hate crimes and the identification and prosecution of its perpetrators. Since Memorial Day 2011, we have had increasing incidents of urban mobs composed of mostly black youth who have committed acts of violence against innocent bystanders who often happen to be white Americans. The numbing silence of black leaders, governmental agencies like the Department of Justice, and organizations like the Southern… [Continue Reading]

Whatever happened to corporate responsibility and the goal of transcending race and class by focusing on the values and principles that unite rather than divide Americans?  I raise this question because of Marvel Comics recent decision to replace its white male superhero Peter Parker with Miles Morales, a half-black, half-Latino man from Brooklyn whose sexual identity is currently under discussion at corporate headquarters.  Some of the Marvel executives would like to make Morales gay… [Continue Reading]