RECKONING WITH INCREASED VIOLENCE & HARD SOLUTIONS TO ITS END By Lee Ross, Acumen Editor Authorities in several major U.S. cities have...

Charting & Challenging Eugenics 2021 Dr. Shantella Sherman The Acumen Group A decade ago, I covered a public hearing of the Eugenics Task...

AMERICA'S FASCINATION WITH EUGENIC FITNESS & CREATING A NATIONAL "NORMAL" BY DR. SHANTELLA SHERMAN From 1932 until 1944, researchers from...

BY OLIVIA ROSS, Acumen Staff Writer If evolutionary theory and eugenics promise are to be believed, the sanctity of the world relies on...

By Dr. Shantella Y. Sherman Acumen Publisher Before the racist rampage of Tulsa’s Greenwood neighborhood, its Black residents had grown...

“We get very uncomfortable with the idea of female offenders in general, never mind sexual offenders as they are going against a...

[Story by Jossian Lewis, Miya Smith, and Ami Turay. / Photos by Dr. Shantella Y. Sherman] There is always something going on "down on...

We first met actor Yaphet Kotto, in 1998 while he led the cast of Homicide: Life on the Street. Larger than life, Kotto had the most...

This historian in me could hardly pass up the wine display for 19 Crimes I stumbled upon in a local grocer. Labeled with the conviction...

Texas Mayor Resigns after Eugenic-Tainted Post? When Colorado City, Texas mayor Tim Boyd took to Facebook earlier this week to vent about...