Mel Reeves

The movie The Help has been well reviewed and critiqued at this point, with some finding it wanting. And there are reasons to find the movie deficient, the primary one being that the story is told from a White woman’s perspective. But “therein lies the rub,” as the English bard had one of his characters […]

At bottom, the so-called “U scandal” at the University of Miami is just another example of the inequity and hypocrisy built into U.S. society. It’s the same old song: Rich folks figure out a way to exploit and make money off our children. To make it seem legit, they pay a group of lackeys to […]

“What aide workers fear is that in trying to win one war, the Americans are prepared to let the humanitarian crisis in Somalia get worse,” wrote British journalist Jonathan Rugman. What prompted the aide workers to say something so unflattering about the U.S. government? To be fair, the famine in the region has two sources. […]

There has been a lot of talk recently about the nation’s debt ceiling and what to do about it. And most of us have ignored the debate because it seems complicated, confusing and it doesn’t seem to have anything to do with us regular folks. And as odd as it sounds, it’s actually a good […]