“Do you live here?” exclaimed the police officer who had pulled into our driveway and interrupted my and my brother’s basketball game.
Duke University’s administration and its police department have been engaged in a cover up for two years.
Leadership in Energy and Environmental Design-certified energy projects have cropped up in the most peculiar of places: Northside Elementary School in Chapel Hill, the courthouse in downtown Durham, the Greenbridge mixed-use development in Chapel Hill and the Genome Science Building on campus.
My earliest memory of the U.S. electoral process was the 2000 presidential race between George W. Bush and Al Gore.
Two weeks ago, my friend Bradley Opere was elected the University’s student body president. A majority of students, especially students of color, like myself, were elated. A Black man was student body president at last.
Being woke is in vogue.
The premiere of Aziz Ansari’s Netflix series “Master of None” in November was perceived as an “at last” moment for South Asian American immigrants. At face value, we finally had a show centered around an Indian comic who contemplated South Asian diaspora issues of race, assimilation and representation.
Today marks a week since the Paris attacks, and with it a renewed sense of anguish and grief over the loss of innocent life.
Shock, outrage and then silence — such characterized the mainstream response to a school resource officer assaulting a Black female student and dragging her out of the classroom in handcuffs.
