Photo Credit: Shutterstock Are we truly post-racial or do we just posit racial realities that never were, or would have been? Let us wipe the board clean or discuss what soon may be unseen. [If you choose, after the read consider the Petiton] By Chris Partridge | [...]
In this Aug. 28, 1963 file photo, Dr. Martin Luther King Jr. acknowledges the crowd at the Lincoln Memorial for his "I Have a Dream" speech during the March on Washington. (AP Photo/File) By Gary Younge | Originally Published at The Nation August 14, 2013 This article [...]
Under the new incentives available starting a year from now, manufacturing and biotech companies anywhere in the state would be eligible for sales-tax exemptions on the purchase of manufacturing equipment. Companies also could get hiring credits if they are located in census tracts with the highest rates of poverty and unemployment. There also would be tax credits to attract and retain businesses.
All of us might recall our history, in part. We remember Martin Luther King Junior delivered the famous "I Have a Dream" speech on Lincoln Mall. While we may not have been there on that momentous day, we have read accounts, seen footage, or perhaps have spoken [...]
Are liberals finally ready to oppose neoliberal education reform? By Lois Weiner | Originally Published at Jacobin Magazine. July 31, 2013 An eloquent call to “reclaim the conversation” challenges leading liberal educators to repudiate their involvement in what’s being called “corporate school reform.” We finally see liberal [...]
By Carmen Berkley | Originally Published at The Huffington Post. Black Voices. July 15, 2013 This past weekend, the Black Youth Project convened 100 Black youth to come up with a plan of action to uplift our voices, use our knowledge and take action within our community. [...]
Introduction On the day after Martin Luther King Jr. was murdered in April 1968, Jane Elliott's third graders from the small, all-white town of Riceville, Iowa, came to class confused and upset. They recently had made King their "Hero of the Month," and they couldn't understand why [...]
Words like "freedom," "justice," "democracy" are not common concepts; on the contrary, they are rare. People are not born knowing what these are. It takes enormous and, above all, individual effort to arrive at the respect for other people that these words imply. ~ James Baldwin (1924–1987), [...]
While testing was never intended to leave students without hope, that has been the result. (Photo: AFP/Getty Images) By Suzi Parker | Originally Published at TakePart. July 11, 2013 An alarming rate of students who fail state-mandated tests are ending up in jail. Critics have long [...]
