CHARLESTON, West Virginia, Nov. 21 -- The West Virginia Center on Budget and Policy and American Friends Service Committee jointly issued the following report entitled "State of Working West Virginia 2020 - The State of Racial Inequality". Here are the excerpts: Foreword Sean O'Leary In 1967, Black Americans marched, protested, and even rioted as decades of systemic racism and oppression came to a head. In response, President Lyndon Johnson established the Kerner Commission, which spent the n more ST

BOSTON, Massachusetts, Nov. 21 -- Boston University School of Law issued the following news: For more than 10 years, BU Law and School of Public Health Professor Wendy Mariner has taught Health Insurance and the Affordable Care Act, a seminar exploring the role public and private insurers play in US health policy. But, during that time, she's never used the same syllabus twice. No wonder. Since the 2010 passage of the Patient Protection and Affordable Care Act (ACA)--President Barack Obama's s more PR

SARATOGA SPRINGS, New York, Nov. 19 -- Skidmore College issued the following news: Skidmore College President and literary scholar Marc C. Conner discussed his latest book, "The Selected Letters of Ralph Ellison," with members of the Skidmore community and described the African American literary giant's uncanny understanding of issues that continue to face the contemporary United States. Conner, a widely published scholar of English literature, spoke about the collection of Ellison's letters d more PR