School fit, delaying college and meaningful experiences This article originally appeared in the Washington Times For generations now, Black Americans have lagged — oftentimes, significantly — behind other racial and ethnic groups in multiple measures of socioeconomic achievement. By some estimates when compared to white Americans, for example, the Black poverty rate is more than twice as high and Black students at public colleges are 250% less likely to graduate. So, in light of this troubling reality, do Black Americans need special treatment to succeed?  This was the question posed to me at this month’s Old Parkland Conference in Dallas …

This article originally appeared on Townhall.com President Joe Biden has nominated some terribly polarizing candidates for crucial posts in his administration. Time and again, President Biden and his Democrat allies in the Senate have had to ram through – largely on part-line votes – nominees accused by GOP lawmakers of being radically partisan including the head of policy at DoD, Colin Kahl, and the third-highest official at the Justice Department, Vanita Gupta. True-to-form, President Biden has nominated a disastrous nominee to lead civil rights at the Department of Education in Catherine Lhamon. As with his calamitous nomination of Neera Tanden …

This article originally appeared on Townhall.com. It may be well past time for Chicago Mayor Lori Lightfoot to undergo a mental health evaluation. As a result of numerous bizarre statements and actions, such as only granting interviews to reporters of color, it appears she needs help. In one of her moments of relative lucidity however, Lightfoot made an important revelation. In an otherwise incoherent presser where she declared racism against people of color a public health crisis, Lightfoot claimed that her “parents, like so many others of their generation and other generations were indoctrinated to believe that they could never, ever be able …

Commissioner Janet Dhillon of the Equal Employment Opportunity Commission (EEOC) invited me to testify at a hearing on the “Civil Rights Implications of the COVID-19 Pandemic.” Then, just days before the April 28th hearing, she disinvited me. Commissioner Dhillon’s invitation to me to participate in the hearing was not altogether surprising. At the height of the COVID-19 pandemic I led the civil rights program at the United States Department of Agriculture. I currently head an organization that promotes equal opportunity and antidiscrimination in all facets of American life. Dhillon’s disinvitation of me came as more of a shock. A few …