he Twenty-First Century Foundation did not keep its pledge to honor the importance of on-going communication and transparency crucial for expanding core participants and supporters.
Dr. Smith’s fundamental argument is undocumented Latino immigration is detrimental to Blacks.
The Local Control Funding Formula is a California legislative initiative that enables school districts, rather than the state, to receive and allocate funds to those schools most in need.
In today’s high-tech, increasingly global society, culturally responsive, knowledge-based performance and decision-making are necessary attributes of the educated person.
Trump is dangerously narcissistic and his performance to date signals a scary, if not catastrophic, future for the country.
The congressional vote was extremely close with a margin of about ten votes separating those who decided to maintain food assistance and those who wanted to cut it.
Barriers to Black progress in the 1960s and 2017 are substantially the same but how those barriers are perceived differs significantly
America was built on violence, which in many ways remains the norm. This is particularly evident in U.S. foreign policy, which continues to authorize and support violence in various countries throughout the world. It is also manifested in the mainstream media’s over –the-top coverage of violence and the public’s tacit acceptance of same.
These days, Blacks wonder whether things can get any worse because they are the ones systemically denied societal benefits, byany measure, of social, economic or political progress. So, will things get worse?
For Black unionists, labor reforms, like those in education, law enforcement and politics, are more rhetoric than reality. They must understand that reform emanates from privileged conversations and closed door decisions by leaders who do not l look like them. And given Blacks’ continuing low priority status in unions, it’s safe to conclude organized labor’s high-level decisions routinely do not take Black workers’ needs and concerns into proper consideration.
Racial/ethnic collaboration, for Blacks, is increasingly necessary but arguably, more difficult than ever.
In this surreal-like but painfully real era of Donald Trump, Black people must re-examine their values and demand more effective leadership.
There are no revelations in the massive stockpile of research on the plight of these young men.
The failure of public schools to properly educate Black students is criminal. They have long been at the bottom of virtually every measure of effective schooling. Yet the Black community has remained largely on the sidelines; its dominant response, silence.
The main unifying factor in Europe at that time was a uniquely organized political organization, better known as the Catholic Church.