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Column: Is there slavery in your chocolate?

(11/23/05 5:00am)

Trick-or-treat!" will soon be heard across the country as kids run around in cute little costumes collecting bags of candy. But how many of us know that for many cocoa farmers in the Ivory Coast the chocolate business is much more of a "trick" than a "treat." In fact, the cocoa industry is one massive trick on cocoa farmers and chocolate consumers alike. While the global price for cocoa has fallen too low for many cocoa farmers to feed their families, as chocolate consumers we continue to pay high prices for this delicacy. There is only way out of this trick: Fair trade chocolate.

https://www.dukechronicle.com/article/2005/11/column-there-slavery-your-chocolate

Column: The stories of housekeepers

(11/12/03 5:00am)

Workers at Duke are not supposed to talk with students. This is more than an unspoken rule: Workers are explicitly told by their supervisors that a big "DON'T" on the list of rules for working at Duke is: "DON'T TALK WITH STUDENTS." Workers who attended the Ludacris concert were told that such socializing with students was not to happen again. Workers who dare to talk with students about their working conditions are chastised by management and threatened with disciplinary action. All of this, of course, occurs at a university that claims to embrace "community."

https://www.dukechronicle.com/article/2003/11/column-stories-housekeepers

Column: There's a racist in my mirror

(09/03/03 4:00am)

My first encounter with a person of color is one I look back on with shame and pain. I think I was about three and my oldest brother had brought home one of his friends from medical school--a young black man, the first person of color I had been face to face with in my whole life. Growing up in my part of rural Kansas people of color were an anomaly that caused whispers and gossip to arise from white residents.

https://www.dukechronicle.com/article/2003/09/column-theres-racist-my-mirror