This edited volume examines how and where gay men of color find “home” and what kind of home they find, how they make sense of race and sexuality, and how their experiences reflect what it means to be “raced” and “sexed” in America. The contributors argue both racially and sexually marginalized groups all confront levels of racism and heterosexism that is practiced by the larger ethnic and sexual communities that use white heterosexuality as the “norm” to which all others are compared. The...

The Social Protests of 2020: Visceral Responses to Police Brutality, COVID-19, and Circumscribed Sexuality collects voices from various Black intellectuals — university professors, a scientist, media communication specialist, poets, a visual artist, and political activists — to illustrate how the simultaneity of high-profile political events in the summer of 2020 manifest in our consciousness at one time. Reflecting the contributors’ honest visceral responses, the chapters reveal the angui...

K-12 schools and higher education institutions are experiencing steady racial and cultural shifts that are affecting interactions, relationships, and ultimately, school and student success. The lack of cultural humility and civility in these spaces create conditions for conflict to grow between the primary stakeholders. Conflict recovery is an approach to address the overall issue by engaging in reflection, renewal, and restoration of broken and bruised relationships. It is how one acknowl...

Reflections on the historical First Amendment. With just sixteen words, America's founders outlined the new nation's stance toward religious concerns. Here is a brief history of the Supreme Court's interpretation, occasional neglect, and eventual misinterpretation of those few words.

Scott Rutledge offers an incisive exploration of the evolving role of the U.S. Supreme Court. Far from being solely a legal institution, the Court has become a battleground for political ideologies and policy creation. Through an in-depth examination of a dozen pivotal and controversial cases, Rutledge provides a compelling analysis of how the Court has shifted from interpreting laws to shaping them, redefining the boundaries of constitutional authority.The Supreme Court Beyond the...

Religion is increasingly being allowed to shape judicial decisions in America's highest court. This compelling analysis by Scott Rutledge uncovers how religious ideology has influenced landmark cases, revealing a profound impact on the nation's legal, social, and political landscapes.Examining Judicial Activism and Religious InfluenceRutledge dissects Supreme Court rulings where religious beliefs intersect with constitutional interpretation. Through a detai...

It was an age of adventure. An age of sorcery. An age of unrelenting horror. Sword and sorcery and pulp horror go hand-in-hand. Sinister enchanters working foul magic. Hideous beasts lurking in shadowy dungeons. Blasphemous elder gods uncoiling from forgotten and forbidden temples SWORDS IN THE SHADOWS features twenty-one stories with a bloody stake driven into the heart of both the horror and fantasy camps. Herein, you will find fantasy worlds, brave warriors, fabulous creatures, wondrous...

The U.S. Supreme Court has ceased to be a strictly legal institution, if it ever was one. That’s why we see such impassioned political struggles over any appointment of a new Justice. The contentiousness includes, moreover, the nature of the role which the Justices now claim for themselves, that of an originator of new laws and policies. The question is explored here through a careful selection and reassessment of a dozen very interesting and controversial cases.A central role of t...

The ideal of religious liberty enshrined in the Constitution of the United States stands in vivid contrast to today’s idea of a living constitution. Here the author compares the two. In the book’s centerpiece he points out the religious decisions and policies incorporated by the American founders into the text of 1787, and into subsequent Amendments. The Constitution is examined as a secular scripture, so to speak: as an expression of its framers’ convictions about the sacred and the profa...