Twenty plus One in Omega Psi Phi

(editor’s note: I wrote the original versionĀ on April 19, 2009.) On April 18, 1989, twenty years and one day ago I became a memberĀ Omega Psi Phi Fraternity, the first black fraternity established at a historically black college (Howard), having pledged at one of...

A New Deal for Academics?

Effective immediately, my university is freezing salaries, canceling all searches, and cutting budgets 10%. I’ve talked about this before, thinking that perhaps Obama needed to include the type of cultural creative work in his stimulus package that FDR included...