The Journal of Fordham University's Top Thinkers
Thomas Raynard James, Anthony Ray Hinton, Vincent Simmons, Devonia Inman, Kevin Strickland, Juwan Deering, Grant Williams and the list goes on. Black individuals are overrepresented at every level of the criminal justice system but nowhere […]
Amidst coverage of the French election cycle and the ongoing war in Ukraine, an important domestic story fell through the cracks of media coverage. Mainstream networks gave very little attention to Wynn Bruce, a 50-year-old […]
April 24th is Armenian Genocide Remembrance Day, during which countries from around the world commemorate the 1915 Armenian Genocide. Similar to years prior, we saw heads of state like President Joe Biden and Canadian Prime […]
Since its founding, the Supreme Court has constantly sought to portray itself as an apolitical and independent organization distant from the two other branches of the American government. Many legal scholars and laypeople have worked […]
The January 6th Committee is a nine-member panel, created by a Democratic-led House of Representatives in order to investigate the January 6, 2021 insurrection at the US Capitol. Although it has two Republican panelists, Re. […]
The 2022 Midterm Elections are upon us, with all members of the House of Representatives and a third of the Senate are up for reelection. Because Democrats possess a tenuous hold on both the House […]
According to a 1909 speech entitled “Lynching is a color-line murder” written by Ida B Wells, a Black female journalist who fought lynching in the late 19th and early 20th centuries, “No other nation, civilized […]
Since the 1973 Supreme Court decision Roe v. Wade, a unified right-wing coalition has sought to overturn federal abortion protections. Various attempts to chip away at the Roe decision permitted states to limit abortion access […]