Opinion Column on Death Penalty He couldn’t sleep. The moss spread across the ashen walls, the room saw even less light as rain tapped noisily on the rusty roof and he woke up to footsteps outside his cell again, fearing his time had come. After 18 years on death row, Juan Roberto Meléndez-Colón was proved…
People of both genders deserve equal treatment as well as opportunities. But is this the case in reality? The fact is that females are generally paid less than men when doing the same job. The gender gap is even more evident when the Peace Corps demonstrated that it is much more difficult for a woman…
The striking impact of digital poverty was manifest in the Covid-19 pandemic, during which many students’ ability to learn from home was disrupted, sometimes severely, by poor access to digital infrastructure. These inequities threaten to exacerbate persistent disparities in public education that short-change students of color and those from low-income families, resulting in potentially lasting…
In December 2014, a tractor-trailer traveling down Interstate 71 in Ohio struck and killed Leelah Alcorn. Alcorn, who identified herself as transgender, had posted a suicide note on her Tumblr where she described her isolation, desperation, and feelings of depression she blamed, in part, on the “conversion therapy” her conservative Christian parents forced her to…
Domestic violence is a global issue reaching across national boundaries as well as socio-economic, cultural, racial and class distinctions. This issue is not only widely dispersed geographically, but also occurring frequently, which has gradually rendered it typical and accepted behavior. However, domestic violence has serious impacts on women’s health and well-being, and its continued existence…
Racial discrimination has been a global issue for quite a while. The artwork above illustrates a way this phenomenon can manifest in the United States: police brutality. In fact, around 226 African Americans were killed by the U.S. police in 2020. Some individuals include Rayshard Brooks, Daniel Prude, George Floyd, Breonna Taylor, Atatiana Jefferson, Aura…
In today’s reality of nation-states, we often find ourselves living among a polychromatic citizenry or citizens of multi-faith/multi-ethnic backgrounds, with roughly two hundred independent states that contain 600 living language groups, and 5000 ethnic groups. Additionally, most of these citizens of the world carry religious identities: 2.2 billion Christians followed by 1.6 billion Muslims, 1…
