Love is When a Man Brings the Groceries, Instead of Eating Yours
How the Film “Claudine” Continues to Inform Black Love Relationships, Forty-eight Years Later By Dr. Shantella Y. Sherman, ACUMEN...
'Boxing Day' Brings Romance, Touch of Black London to the Holidays
[By Lee Ross, Acumen Editor] It's clear to anyone who knows me that as an Anglophile, the thought of British Christmas, Boxing Day, and...
“We Need to Talk”
BY CHRISTIE PASCHAKIS, ACUMEN GUEST EDITOR The four words you never want to hear your partner say, and yet there they were – hovering...
POP RECOVERY: Charting the long-term recovery of Coronation Street’s Peter Barlow
BY LEE ROSS, ACUMEN EDITOR WITH DR. SHANTELLA SHERMAN Television writers rarely afford viewers storylines that incorporate the long-term,...
REAL MEN RIDE BULLS! Acumen PBR Coverage 2021
Award photo by Andre Silva Acumen's annual PBR (Professional Bull Riding) coverage was kicked up a notch this year at the EagleBank Arena...
In Her Own Words... Joan Mulholland
SIXTY YEARS AGO, 19-YEAR-OLD JOAN MULHOLLAND WAS ARRESTED AND JAILED AT PARCHMAN FARM IN MISSISSIPPI AS A CIVIL RIGHTS PROTESTER. THE...
Streets of (Gun)Fire
RECKONING WITH INCREASED VIOLENCE & HARD SOLUTIONS TO ITS END By Lee Ross, Acumen Editor Authorities in several major U.S. cities have...
#AcumenEugenicallySpeaking
Charting & Challenging Eugenics 2021 Dr. Shantella Sherman The Acumen Group A decade ago, I covered a public hearing of the Eugenics Task...
Measuring Up
AMERICA'S FASCINATION WITH EUGENIC FITNESS & CREATING A NATIONAL "NORMAL" BY DR. SHANTELLA SHERMAN From 1932 until 1944, researchers from...
Survival of the Fittest? Poor Fecundity Odds on the Rise
BY OLIVIA ROSS, Acumen Staff Writer If evolutionary theory and eugenics promise are to be believed, the sanctity of the world relies on...