Should everyone have equal civil rights?  This group felt that civil rights should be based on the highest morality of the people and the people have a civic responsibility to enforce those rights for all US citizens.   Exceptions should be considered and made on a case by case basis such as in the instance of … Read more »

The group began discussing the issue of civil rights from their own idealistic philosophical points of view.   After discussing which populations of people should have certain rights, the group uncovered deeper feeling of unfairness to the “system” if, for example, illegal immigrants access healthcare and drive up costs for everyone because they are uninsured.   The … Read more »

One of the participants asked us who the biggest threat to our security is. Howard University alumni met to discuss privacy on July 25, 2012 in Maryland. After discussing all of the six possibilities, we concluded that hackers are more of a threat than the government. The government and private entities are both afraid of … Read more »

By: KKelly The discussion of six policy possibilities by six Howard University alumni and students on Tuesday, July 10, 2012 was lively.  All of the possibilities provoked ideas that we could do more to equalize access to good and healthy food for all people and that we have a responsibility to promote subsidies that can … Read more »

On Tuesday, June 12, the group discussed all of the six policy possibilities in the Interactivity Foundation report “The Future of Higher Education.”  The group began by exploring several possible definitions of “higher education” and then wended its way through the report from there.  Many of the possibilities – including for example Possibility B (Higher … Read more »