>>BY CATHY EMRICK My kids go to “that” school. You know, the one about about which people who have never set foot inside exclaim, ““I...[Read More]
Tag Archives: equality
>>Today we mark the 52nd anniversary of the passage of the Equal Pay Act, signed into law by President John F. Kennedy. The law supposedly...[Read More]
>>There’s good news for North Carolinians, but like everything lately, it’s going to turn bad really quickly. According to a >>new report by three Federal...[Read More]
>>Wake County School District has not fared well in the public eye when it comes to its treatment of racial minorities. In 2010, the NAACP...[Read More]
>>I’m not breaking any news when I say that race relations in this country remain strained, tense even. For all the progress we’ve made, we...[Read More]
>>BY JANET COLM The night of Sept. 5, 1996, just as Hurricane Fran made landfall on Bald Head Island, a young woman living outside of...[Read More]
>>How likely is a child from a poor household to become a member of the middle or upper class? If you’ve been listening to the...[Read More]
>>BY LEANNE SIMON What do you recall about childhood? I remember the fun of after-school play-dates (though we didn’t call them that then), staying up...[Read More]
>>Today is >>Equal Pay Day. It is a day to recognize the value of work. Not women’s work or men’s work; just work. Because a...[Read More]
>> When I married my husband, I envisioned an egalitarian utopia. My spouse and I would split all the chores 50/50; to heck with society’s...[Read More]