Black Agenda Report Says Indicted Atlanta Superintendent Doesn’t Deserve Black Support
There are those who feel that former Atlanta Public Schools Superintendent Beverly Hall was the victim of racial scapegoating. But there are some who feel that Hall doesn’t deserve support from the black community, largely because she is no victim of racism. In a compelling article, BAR Managing Editor Bruce Dixon outlined Hall’s contributions to [...]
Education Professor Says Atlanta Cheating Scandal Runs Through the White House
The road to the massive cheating scandal in Atlanta (NYT 3/30/2013) runs right through the White House. The former superintendent, Dr. Beverly L. Hall, and her 34 obedient subordinates now face criminal charges, but the central role played by a group of un-indicted and largely unacknowledged co-conspirators, her powerful enablers, is barely noted. Beyond her [...]
Dr. Julianne Malveaux: Medical Attitudes Maintain Health Disparities
by Dr. Julianne Malveaux Anna Brown, a St. Louis based homeless woman needed treatment for a sprained ankle. She went to three emergency rooms seeking such treatment. In the third hospital, St. Mary’s Health Center, Ms. Brown was emphatic about needing care. Instead she was arrested for trespassing, and died in a jail cell! Was [...]
Marc Morial Speaks on the Importance of Being Prepared for Opportunity
By Marc Morial “It is better to be prepared for an opportunity and not have one than to have an opportunity and not be prepared.” – Whitney M. Young In 1963, more than a quarter-million people gathered in Washington, DC to march for jobs and equality. The Great March for Jobs and Freedom was a [...]
Nida Khan: 10 Years After the End of the Iraq War, the Anti-War Movement is Finally Dead
Last week marked the official 10-year anniversary of the start of the Iraq War. Leading up to the commemoration of this b****y and costly engagement, major networks, newspapers and online outlets acknowledged the decade milestone with extensive coverage. They parsed the many ways in which the Bush administration misled everyone and orchestrated a brazen attack [...]
Rev. Jesse Jackson Argues that Racism is Inherent in Detroit City Takeover
by Rev. Jesse Jackson Imagine Gov. George Wallace of Alabama in 1963 appointing an emergency manager in Birmingham with broad powers to dismiss elected officials, renegotiate contracts, sell assets and become sole authority of the city’s pension funds a month after the voters rejected the emergency manager law in a statewide referendum? What would Dr. [...]
Dr. Wilmer Leon: Dr. Ben Carson, Great Surgeon but a Bad Icon for the Political Collective
by Dr. Wilmer J. Leon III “Nobody is starving on the streets (of America). We have always taken care of them. We have churches which actually are much better mechanisms for taking care of the poor because they are right there with them. This is one of the reasons we give tax breaks to churches…” [...]
Bren Martin: Fixing the School to Prison Pipeline
by Bren Martin As a parent and a parent/community leader, I have a dire concern about the prevailing school-to-prison pipeline that has many pipes through which it works. “According to the U.S Department of Education’s Office for Civil Rights (OCR), over 70 percent of students involved in school-related arrests or referred to law enforcement are Hispanic or [...]
Dr. Boyce: What Lil Wayne and Malcolm X Have in Common
by Dr. Boyce Watkins I love and respect the creative ability of Lil Wayne, even if I am concerned about the content of his music. The brother is going through some difficult times, and as someone who saw the early deaths of Eazy-E and Tupac Shakur, it’s hard for me to see chickens coming home [...]
Russell Simmons and Scores of Celebs Say: “It’s Time to End the War on Drugs”
By Russell Simmons For 42 years, we have waged war against our own people that we have disguised as the “War on Drugs.” Forty-two years of failure that has cost the American taxpayers $1 trillion dollars, resulted in 45 million drug arrests, and overfilled America’s prisons while failing to reduce the availability, sale, or use [...]
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