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The Demise of the African American Baseball Player
LCB_18_2_Art_4_Standen (Do Not Delete) 8/26/2014 6:33 AM THE DEMISE OF THE AFRICAN AMERICAN BASEBALL PLAYER by Jeffrey Standen* Recently alarms were raised in the sports world over the revelation that baseball player agent Scott Boras and other American investors were providing large loans to young baseball players in the Dominican Republic. Although this practice does not violate any restrictions imposed by Major League Baseball or the MLB Players Association, many commentators have termed this funding practice of dubious ethical merit and at bottom exploitative. Yet it is difficult to distinguish exploitation from empowerment. Refusing to lend money to young Dominican players reduces the money invested in athletes. The rules of baseball and the requirements of amateurism preclude similar loans to American-born baseball players. Young ballplayers unlucky enough to be born in the United States cannot borrow their training expenses against their future earning potential. The same limitations apply in similar forms to athletes in other sports, yet baseball presents some unique problems. Success at the professional level in baseball involves a great deal of skill, attention to detail, and supervised training over a long period of time. Players from impoverished financial backgrounds, including predominately the African American baseball player, have been priced out of the game. American athletes in sports that, like baseball, require a significant commitment of money over time have not been able to fund their apprenticeships through self-generated lending markets. One notable example of self-generated funding is in the sport of golf. To fund their career goals, American golfers raise money through a combination of debt and equity financing. -
Whither/Wither Alimony?
GW Law Faculty Publications & Other Works Faculty Scholarship 2015 Whither/Wither Alimony? June Carbone Naomi R. Cahn George Washington University Law School, [email protected] Follow this and additional works at: https://scholarship.law.gwu.edu/faculty_publications Part of the Law Commons Recommended Citation Texas Law Review, Vol. 93, p. 925, 2015 This Book Review is brought to you for free and open access by the Faculty Scholarship at Scholarly Commons. It has been accepted for inclusion in GW Law Faculty Publications & Other Works by an authorized administrator of Scholarly Commons. For more information, please contact [email protected]. Book Reviews Whither/Wither Alimony? THE MARRIAGE BUYOUT: THE TROUBLED TRAJECTORY OF U.S. ALIMONY LAW. By Cynthia Lee Starnes. New York, New York: NYU Press, 2014. 235 pages. $45.00. June Carbone* & Naomi Cahn** Introduction Kristen and Derek divorce after ten years of marriage.1 At the time of the divorce, Derek makes $120,000 per year and Kristen works part-time, earning $22,000 per year. Kristen has degrees in nursing and dance, but she quit working to care for the couple’s two children and had only recently gone back to work part-time. Should she be entitled to alimony? Should it matter that she left Derek after she discovered that he was having an affair, even though he told her that the affair was over and he wanted to stay married? Greg and Sharon have also been married for about ten years. Sharon is a teacher and the artistic director of a Brooklyn dance company.2 Greg is an actor. -
Shareholder Activism BBLJ Symposium – April 4, 2014 Resources
Shareholder Activism BBLJ Symposium – April 4, 2014 Resources RESOURCES Pills and Partisans: Understanding Takeover Defenses Jordan M. Barry, John William Hatfield What Matters in Corporate Governance? Lucian Bebchuck, Alma Cohen, Allen Ferrell Shareholder Activism: An Overview Jaspreet Mann, J.D. Candidate ’16, Berkeley Business Law Journal Editor Articles included in this paper are: Shareholder Activism, European Corporate Governance Institute (ECGI) Ten Rules for Dealing with Activist Shareholders, Thomas W. Christopher, Yi Claire Sheng The M&A Journal, Kirkland & Ellis. When Shareholder Activism Goes Too Far, James Surowiecki, The New Yorker. Activism is Going Global Citi Warns Clients, David Gelles, The New York Times. Full Contact Investing: Activist Shareholder Get Engaged, William Donovan, About.com. Corporate Upgraders, The Economist. Boardrooms Rethink Tactics to Defang Activist Investors, David Gelles, The New York Times. A Quick and Dirty History of Shareholder Activism Tony Huynh, J.D. Candidate ’16, Berkeley Business Law Journal Editor Articles included in this paper are: The History of Shareholder Activism, Lucian Bebchuk, Beth Young. The Evolution of Shareholder Activism in the United States, Stuart Gillian, Laura Starks. Shareholder Activism and the Increase of Shareholder Value Tony Huynh, J.D. Candidate ’16, Berkeley Business Law Journal Editor Articles included in this paper are: A Label for Activist Investors That No Longer Fits, Steven M. Davidoff, The New York Times. Hedge Funds versus Private Equity Funds as Shareholder Activists in Germany – Shareholder Activism BBLJ Symposium – April 4, 2014 Resources Differences in Value Creation, Denis Schweizer, Mark Mietzner. How Activist Shareholders Turn from Villains Into Heroes, The Economist. Debunking Myths About Activist Investors, Chuck Nathan, RLM Finsbury Commentaries on Corporate Governance. -
125Th Street, Harlem, NY
APOLLO ANNUAL REPORT 2016-17th 125 Street, Harlem, NY 1 TABLE OF CONTENTS APOLLO MUSIC APOLLO COMMUNITY LEADERSHIP Page 10 Page 16 Page 4 APOLLO DANCE APOLLO EDUCATION ELLA FITZGERALD Page 12 Page 18 CENTENNIAL CELEBRATION Page 6 APOLLO THEATER APOLLO IN THE MEDIA Page 13 Page 20 WOMEN OF THE WORLD Page 8 APOLLO SIGNATURE APOLLO CELEBRATIONS Page 14 Page 22 APOLLO PEOPLE STATEMENT OF Page 27 OPERATING ACTIVITY Page 24 APOLLO SUPPORTERS Page 28 STATEMENT OF FINANCIAL POSITION Page 26 JOIN THE APOLLO Page 30 “Since its inception, the Apollo Theater has been home to legendary and FROM OUR up-and-coming artists alike, serving as an ever-changing, driving force in popular music and culture, not only in Harlem but across the world.” LEADERSHIP Jonelle Procope, President and CEO of the Apollo Theater We are delighted to share this Annual Report highlighting It is an incredible honor to bring my voice to the Apollo’s the incredible accomplishments of the Apollo’s season. Key storied legacy and exciting future. My first season at the milestones from the 2016-2017 season include welcoming Apollo has been a whirlwind of inspiring and innovative Kamilah Forbes as the new Executive Producer; presenting performances and programs. I especially want to mention The First Noel, the first multi-week run of an Apollo-Presents the four-day Women of the World Festival, which was show on the iconic Mainstage; and welcoming popular anchored by a special tribute concert to the incomparable Brooklyn-based festival, Afropunk, for their first appearance artist/activist Abbey Lincoln. -
Will Stronger Borders Weaken Innovation?
LARRY SMARR COLLABORATES • BIAS AT WORK • ELEVATE YOUR TAX FUNCTION THE Best Business The Global Innovation 1000 Books Will Stronger 2017 OF Borders Weaken Innovation? Winter 2017 $12.95 Display until February 27, 2018 www.strategy-business.com BUSINESS MEETS PASSION. PASSION MEETS PURPOSE. For more than 40 years, the Owner/President Management program has OWNER/ helped the world’s top executives and entrepreneurs take control of their enterprise, grow their skill sets, and fuel the passion that drives their business PRESIDENT endeavors. The intensive three-unit format expands your entrepreneurial mindset, business acumen, and industry insights over 24 months. You will MANAGEMENT emerge as a lifetime member of OPM’s global alumni network—equipped with the strategic vision to transform your company and your career. OWNER/PRESIDENT MANAGEMENT 09–27 SEP 2018 (UNIT 1 ONLY) LEARN MORE AT WWW.EXED.HBS.EDU/SB-OPM comment editor’s letter editor’s editor’s letter editor’s 1 Innovators within Borders We’ve been publishing the Global Innovation 1000, an annual report on corpo- rate R&D spending conducted by Strategy&, PwC’s strategy consulting busi- ness, since 2005. Every year, the innovation landscape has grown more and more open, with talent, information, and technical skill flowing across national borders. Until now. In this year’s report, “Will Stronger Borders Weaken Innovation?” (page 54), the tension between national interests (which can be characterized by suspicion of outsiders and protective of their home enterprises) and innovation (which has always been a boundary-crossing phenomenon) takes center stage. As authors Barry Jaruzelski, Volker Staack, and Robert Chwalik put it, “Companies are likely to lose efficiency, create redundancies, and take on higher costs,” espe- cially if they divide their research and development footprints into more autono- mous regional hubs. -
An Experiment Exploring Race Recognition and Source
DOES THIS MICROPHONE MAKE ME SOUND WHITE? AN EXPERIMENT EXPLORING RACE RECOGNITION AND SOURCE CREDIBILITY IN RADIO NEWS by TANYA OTT-FULMORE MICHAEL PARROTT, COMMITTEE CHAIR GEORGE DANIELS MARY MEARES A THESIS Submitted in partial fulfillment of the requirements for the degree of Master of Arts in the Department of Journalism and Creative Media in the Graduate School of The University of Alabama TUSCALOOSA, ALABAMA 2020 Copyright Tanya Ott-Fulmore 2020 ALL RIGHTS RESERVED ABSTRACT Despite efforts to increase the number of minority journalists working in radio, television, newspaper and digital newsrooms across the United States, the percentage of people of color working in newsrooms is only slightly more than half of the percentage of minorities in the overall population. Social Identity Theory holds that an individual’s self-concept is shaped, in part, by their perceived membership in a group. With the U.S. expected to become “minority White” by 2045, minority representation in newsrooms could have significant implications for not only increasing the number of people of color employed newsrooms, but also increasing listeners, viewers, and readers of media organizations as people of color would see themselves — or more accurately, hear themselves — reflected in those organizations. This experiment used an online questionnaire to expose U.S. adults to the voices of professional radio newscasters of various races to determine if the participants could accurately identify the race or ethnicity of the newscaster from a voice recording. The race of the newscaster—White, Black or Hispanic—served as the independent variable and was manipulated to measure perceived source credibility, which served as the dependent variable. -
For Colored Girls and Boys Who Have Considered Suicide/ When Prayer and GOOD Music Weren’T Enough Joshua K
Wright: For Colored Girls and Boys Who Have Considered Suicide/ When Pray For Colored Girls and Boys Who Have Considered Suicide/ When Prayer and GOOD Music Weren’t Enough Joshua K. Wright Journal of Hip Hop Studies, Special Issue I Gotta Testify: Kanye West, Hip Hop, and the Church Volume 6, Issue 1, Summer 2019, pp. 106–122 DOI: https://doi.org/10.34718/xz28-g676 __________________________________ Published by VCU Scholars Compass, 2019 1 Journal of Hip Hop Studies, Vol. 6, Iss. 1 [2019], Art. 14 For Colored Girls and Boys Who Have Considered Suicide/ When Prayer and GOOD Music Weren’t Enough Joshua K. Wright Abstract Lauren Chanel Allen, a 22-year-old Christian graduate student at Howard University, struggled with mental illness for years. Like so many blacks, Lauren expected her faith to serve an elixir for her problems, including depression. However, her prayers were not sufficient. When she was unable to find solace in the church, she sought out an alternative source: the music of Kanye West. She shared her story in a 2016 article, “How An Ultralight Beam Helped My Dark Depression,” which she published in Abernathy magazine. Lauren’s story speaks to the disconnect that many millennials have with the church. Nowhere in her article did she use the word – therapy – or mention seeking professional help for her condition. Lauren’s avoidance of medical specialists speaks to broader issues in the African American community related to mental illness. This article addresses the following questions: Why do some blacks place more faith in -
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JAMES SUROWIECKI 324 Clinton Ave #2, Brooklyn NY 11205 Cell: (917) 620 4529 [email protected] EDUCATION • Yale University, 1988-1995 o Ph.D. candidate in American History, A.B.D. o Prize Teaching Fellowship, 1991-1992 o Mellon Fellow • University of North Carolina, 1984-1988 o B.A. in History o Highest Distinction o Highest Honors in History o Phi Beta Kappa o North Carolina Fellow o Morehead Scholar TEACHING • Institute for Constitutional History, 2010 o Co-taught seminar on “The Constitution and the Economy” with John Fabian Witt of Yale Law School • Yale University, 1991-1995 o Part-time Acting Instructor (taught seminars on Gender and Globalization and the U.S. Civil Rights Movement) o Teaching assistant, Writing-Intensive Section (Post-1945 American History) o Teaching assistant (Post-1945 American History, Postbellum African-American History, History of American Popular Music) • Choate Rosemary Hall, 1992-1994 o Taught survey of American History (Fall 1993) o Developed syllabus and team-taught interdisciplinary course on race in America (Spring 1992, Spring 1993, Spring 1994) 1 JOURNALISM • Vice News Tonight (HBO), 2017-present o Senior story producer, U.S. News, responsible for editing scripts and supervising production of segments for nightly news show; co-manage team of 20+ correspondents and producers • The New Yorker, New York, NY, 2000-2017 o Business Columnist, writing bi-weekly column on business, economics, and finance o Host of Talking Business video interview series o Video commentaries for Newyorker.com o Contributor -
2017-Year-In-Review-Peakprosperity
2017 Year in Review Markets Fiddle While Rome Burns David B. Collum Betty R. Miller Professor of Chemistry and Chemical Biology Cornell University Email: [email protected] Twitter: @DavidBCollum Introduction “He is funnier than you are.” ~David Einhorn, Greenlight Capital, on Dave Barry’s Year in Review Every December, I write a survey trying to capture the year’s prevailing themes. I appear to have stiff competition—the likes of Dave Barry on one extreme1 and on the other, Pornhub’s marvelous annual climax that probes deeply personal preferences in the world’s favorite pastime.2 (I know when I’m licked.) My efforts began as a few paragraphs discussing the markets on Doug Noland’s bear chat board and monotonically expanded to a tome covering the orb we call Earth. It posts at Peak Prosperity, reposts at ZeroHedge, and then fans out from there. Bearishness and right-leaning libertarianism shine through as I spelunk the Internet for human folly to couch in snarky prose while trying to avoid the “expensive laugh” (too much setup).3 I rely on quotes to let others do the intellectual heavy lifting. PeakProsperity.com 1 “Consider adding more of your own thinking and judgment to the mix . most folks are familiar with general facts but are unable to process them into a coherent and actionable framework.” ~Tony Deden, founder of Edelweiss Holdings, on his second read through my 2016 Year in Review “Just the facts, ma’am.” ~Joe Friday By October, I have usually accrued 500 single-spaced pages of notes, quotes, and anecdotes. -
Standards for Passing Papers in C2 Classes
STANDARDS FOR PASSING PAPERS IN C2 CLASSES Writing Program, UC Santa Cruz, 2007 Preface 2 Educational Objectives of the C Requirement and Specific Goals of C1 and C2 4 Rubric: Assessing Students as Writers at the End of C2 7 Essays with a Rating of 1: “Does not meet C2’s minimum goals” 8 Essay A, “James Surowiecki 9 Essay A Explanation 15 Essay B, “Street Racing” 16 Essay B explanation 24 Essays with a Rating of 2: “Demonstrates satisfactory if at times marginal proficiency” 25 Essay C, “Pig Tales Essay” 26 Essay C explanation 29 Essay D, “Is Our Homeland Security Program Working?” 30 Essay D explanation 37 Essay E, “COINTELPRO in The 60’s” 38 Essay E explanation 49 Essay with a Rating of 3: “Demonstrates clear competency” 50 Essay F, “The Censorship of the Past Versus the Rating System of the Present 51 Essay F explanation 61 Essay G, “Surfrider Foundation” 62 Essay G explanation 72 Essay with a Rating of 4: “Demonstrates sophisticated understanding and execution” 73 Essay H, “William Tecumseh Sherman: The Private Politician” 74 Essay H explanation 85 Essay I, “The Real State of Technology” 86 Essay I explanation 95 C2 Standards - 1 of 95 Preface Between 2003 and 2005, the UCSC Writing Program undertook a multi-faceted assessment project that as one of its many goals set out to clarify the Writing Program Faculty’s standards for evaluating students’ writing at the end of Writing 1, Composition and Rhetoric (now known as Writing 2, Rhetoric and Inquiry). The project began with extensive research on theories and methodologies of assessment, continued with our refining our educational goals for Writing 1/Writing 2 and developing a rubric and protocol for evaluating the quality of students’ essays, and culminated in an ambitious pilot in 2004 in which 17 faculty members scored 54 essays randomly selected from 43 sections of Writing 1. -
The Black/Gay Split Over Same-Sex Marriage— a Critical [Race] Perspective
TULANE JOURNAL OF LAW & SEXUALITY A Review of Sexual Orientation and Gender Identity in the Law VOLUME 22 2013 It’s [Not] a Black Thing: The Black/Gay Split over Same-Sex Marriage— A Critical [Race] Perspective Adele M. Morrison* I. INTRODUCTION ..................................................................................... 2 II. THE BLACK/GAY SPLIT ...................................................................... 11 A. Identified............................................................................. 12 B. Located ............................................................................... 13 III. CIVIL (MARRIAGE) RIGHTS: DIVISIONS OVER . ............................. 15 A. Immutability ....................................................................... 18 B. “Civil Rights” ..................................................................... 22 C. The Meaning(s) and Purpose(s) of Marriage ...................... 23 1. Religious Arguments ........................................................ 26 2. Secular Arguments ........................................................... 28 IV. THE SPLIT: A CRITICAL RACE THEORY PERSPECTIVE ...................... 32 A. (Dis)Interest [Di][Con]vergence ........................................ 33 1. Black Communities and Interest Divergence .................. 34 2. LGBT Communities and Disinterest Convergence ........ 37 * © 2013 Adele M. Morrison. Associate Professor of Law, Wayne State University Law School, Detroit, MI; LL.M., University of Wisconsin School of Law; J.D., Stanford -
The New Yorker ’S Editorial Staf
PRICE $7.99 FEB. 22, 2016 FEBRUARY 22, 2016 5 GOINGS ON ABOUT TOWN 17 THE TALK OF THE TOWN Amy Davidson on Democrats and black voters; a Robert Moses opera; museum song; O.I.C. Man; James Surowiecki on populism and primaries. THE POLITICAL SCENE Jill Lepore 22 The Party Crashers The system comes under challenge again. SHOUTS & MURMURS Kelly Stout 28 Juror Instructions ANNALS OF WEALTH Jiayang Fan 30 The Golden Generation China’s young go West. LETTER FROM LOS ANGELES Nicholas Schmidle 36 The Digital Dirt The man celebrities fear most. A REPORTER AT LARGE William Finnegan 50 Last Days How jihad came to San Bernardino. FICTION Don DeLillo 60 “Sine Cosine Tangent” THE CRITICS POP MUSIC Hua Hsu 66 Kanye West’s “The Life of Pablo.” BOOKS George Packer 69 Six left-wing defectors. Joan Acocella 74 Alexander Chee’s “The Queen of the Night.” 77 Briefly Noted ON TELEVISION Emily Nussbaum 78 “Vinyl” and “Billions.” MUSICAL EVENTS Alex Ross 80 Works by Olivier Messiaen and Hans Abrahamsen. THE CURRENT CINEMA Anthony Lane 82 “Zoolander 2,” “Deadpool,” “A War.” POEMS Kevin Young 54 “Money Road” J. D. McClatchy 63 “Dirty Snow” COVER Kadir Nelson “Schomburg Center, Harlem, New York” DRAWINGS Chris Cater, Joe Dator, Michael Maslin, Barbara Smaller, Zachary Kanin, Tom Cheney, Frank Cotham, Paul Noth, Drew Dernavich, Liana Finck, Edward Steed, P. C. Vey, Harry Bliss, Tom Toro, Danny Shanahan, David Sipress, Christian COVER: SOURCE: CARL VAN VECHTEN (HURSTON); WILLIAM H. JOHNSON (SEATED COUPLE); COUPLE); (SEATED JOHNSON H. WILLIAM (HURSTON); VECHTEN VAN CARL SOURCE: COVER: (HOLIDAY) ARCHIVE/GETTY HISTORY UNIVERSAL (ELLINGTON); FOUNDATION/GETTY KOBAL JOHN Lowe, Jack Ziegler, Michael Crawford, Trevor Spaulding, Peter Kuper, Liam Francis Walsh SPOTS Ben Wiseman CONTRIBUTORS Jill Lepore (“The Party Crashers,” p.