My pastime of late is reading the New York Times. It reports on issues that both delight and confound me. Among the more confounding, hate crimes, specifically the under-reporting of them. A disturbing example; the hate crime against Ms. Barbara…
Read MoreIt is easy to make someone “the other.” I learned this recently in a class on Intersectionality. Race, class, gender, and whatever else we see as forming our identity, “intersect” to create our unique way of looking at the world.…
Read MoreThe European Union might not be the poster child for a single currency system, but it does lead the world in advancing gender equality. In March, the European Parliament called on the EU to move forward with “a new strategy…
Read More“Creativity takes courage,” Matisse said. This week Fauvist artists like him will have center stage at Sotheby’s auction house. It is appropriate. The Fauves were the outcasts of the art world. Their name, translated “Wild Beasts,” was coined by art critic,…
Read MoreIt is difficult, if not impossible, to pick up a NYC newspaper and not see an article about stop-and-frisk. Indeed, NYC has historically been the stop-and-frisk capital of the U.S. In 2011, the Drug Policy Alliance reported: “Between 2005 and…
Read More36 states have enacted Voter I.D. laws since 2006. The laws require government-issued photo I.D. to be shown in order to verify eligible voters are indeed who they claim to be. Prior to 2006, these laws did not exist. Their…
Read MoreA new kind of museum opened last week in NYC. Not like The Met or MOMA, this one was for 3 days only, but no less significant. The Museum of Drug Policy used art as a lens to examine the…
Read MoreEarlier this month the Major League Baseball Association celebrated Jackie Robinson Day. Every player wore Robinson’s jersey number 42 to commemorate Robinson who was the first African-American to play in the league. When Robinson walked onto Ebbets Field on April…
Read More90% of the more than 2.5 million charged with a crime in this country cannot afford a lawyer, according to Dean Strang, who shared his experience defending Steven Avery, the now famous Wisconsin man at the center of Netflix’s “Making…
Read MoreWatch a pregnant woman at a cocktail party sip a glass of wine. You will see lots of scowls and looks of disapproval. Even if this is the only glass of wine this woman has had in the last month…
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