Rise In Home Foreclosures

Despite the rise in African-American home ownership in the last decade, now there is a rise in home foreclosures for this same group. Many neighborhoods in Cleveland, Chicago, Philadelphia, and Atlanta have experienced this sharp rise in foreclosures. There are a few likely causes for this rise. African-Americans are more [...]

Big Bank Take Little Bank

Negotiation is only authentic when both sides are near equals. When I was a kid, my friends around the neighborhood used to play this game called “Big Bank Take Little Bank.” This silly ghetto game went like this: two people would empty their pockets; whoever had the most money got to take the other’s money. [...]

Yale Professor: We Need More Sex in the Workplace

“The Sanitized Workplace”“Contrary to the prevailing orthodoxy, this Article argues, workplace sexuality is not always discriminatory or disruptive: Sexual conduct takes its shape and meaning from the larger organizational context. Sociological research shows that women who work in well-integrated, egalitarian settings often participate and take pleasure in sexual interactions—probably because their numerical strength gives [...]