by Kira Banks | Jan 23, 2011 | Opinion Pieces
Get a bunch of psychologists together who are also mothers, and there is bound to be scrutiny related to anything our children might come into contact with — namely, the education system. So, when my good friend began expressing concern about the shifts in her...
by Kira Banks | Jan 10, 2011 | Opinion Pieces
A jury will be in the position to decide if Tom Burlington, a reporter-anchor for a Philadelphia television station, was wrongly fired. While the complexities of this individual case bear out in court, I continue to be amused (it’s a better option than infuriated, at...
by Kira Banks | Nov 16, 2010 | Opinion Pieces
A recent Pew Research Center poll found that there is no consensus about a national Latino leader. My critique is not with the research but with the cultural tendency to frame questions about leadership and people of color in such a way. To be fair, the question was...
by Kira Banks | Nov 1, 2010 | Opinion Pieces
From my vantage point, we have more to be concerned about than party politics. When it comes to racial matter, we are like a traumatized child, dissociating at pivotal moments in U.S. history, enacting those injured selves simultaneously as we attempt to interact. The...
by Kira Banks | Oct 25, 2010 | Opinion Pieces
Pssst…… Refusing to acknowledge differences won’t make them go away. Over the past few weeks, we have been inundated with stories of bullied and shamed young people taking their own lives due to the hostile environment of socially sanctioned hate....
