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Media Misses the Mark—Vote Theft at Core of Flint’s Problems

For Immediate Release Friday, February 12, 2016 - 1:15 PM DETROIT, Michigan - Three significant mainstream media outlets recently published editorials that acknowledge that emergency managers appointed by Governor Snyder clearly made the ill-fated decisions that resulted in the poisoning of Flint’s water supply [...]

Media Misses the Mark—Vote Theft at Core of Flint’s Problems2016-11-29T17:36:58-05:00

How Much Do We Hate Our Children?

By Jeff Bryant | Originally Published at Education Opportunity Network. January 14, 2016 at 4:48 PM | Photographic Credit; Help Homeless Children When President Barack Obama recently made an impassioned plea to do something about the proliferation of gun violence in America, he drew upon the images [...]

How Much Do We Hate Our Children?2016-11-29T17:36:59-05:00

Why the Left Isn’t Talking About Rural American Poverty

Within the popular American conscience—arguably a close reflection of the mainstream media—there are two favored focal points for discussing the problem of poverty. The first is within the urban, inner city context—often conflated with black poverty—which has held a critical role in American political and [...]

Why the Left Isn’t Talking About Rural American Poverty2016-11-29T17:37:03-05:00

The Curse of Market Place Fundamentalism and the Challenge of an Insurrectional Pedagogy

By Henry Giroux | Originally Published at Counter Punch. September 29, 2015 | Pierre Andrieu/Getty Images Introduction The forces of free-market fundamentalism are on the march ushering in a terrifying horizon of what Hannah Arendt once called “dark times.” Across the globe, the [...]

The Curse of Market Place Fundamentalism and the Challenge of an Insurrectional Pedagogy2016-11-29T17:37:04-05:00

The Piercing Cry of Child Poverty in Economically Rich but Spiritually Poor America

Pope Francis speaks out faithfully and forcefully against poverty and has been called “the pope of the poor.” But on his first visit to the United States there was demoralizing news about poverty, especially child poverty, in our nation—the world’s largest [...]

The Piercing Cry of Child Poverty in Economically Rich but Spiritually Poor America2016-11-29T17:37:04-05:00

State School Takeovers Steal Democracy, Ignore Poverty

By Jan Resseger | Originally Published at janresseger. August 19, 2015< | Photographic Credit; It's time to attend to Concentrated Poverty, Democracy, and Education. The takeover of the public schools in New Orleans followed a natural catastrophe, the destruction of the city by Hurricane Katrina and the [...]

State School Takeovers Steal Democracy, Ignore Poverty2016-11-29T17:37:06-05:00

Ferguson’s Inheritance

As the one-year anniversary of Michael Brown’s killing rapidly approaches, within days of the fiftieth anniversary of the Watts Rebellion, we are invited to reflect on the connection between state repression and African-American mobilization past and present. Each generation has a moment when its members share [...]

Ferguson’s Inheritance2016-11-29T17:37:06-05:00

What a Real Anti-Poverty Movement Looks Like

By Linda Tirado | Originally Published at Talk Poverty. May 28, 2015 | Photographic Credit; News That Matters There’s no point beating around this bush. An anti-poverty movement led by the middle and upper classes is doomed to failure. Equally, a partisan movement will never manage to [...]

What a Real Anti-Poverty Movement Looks Like2016-11-29T17:37:13-05:00

From Ferguson to Baltimore: The Fruits of Government-Sponsored Segregation

In Baltimore in 1910, a black Yale law school graduate purchased a home in a previously all-white neighborhood. The Baltimore city government reacted by adopting a residential segregation ordinance, restricting African Americans to designated blocks. Explaining the policy, Baltimore’s mayor proclaimed, “Blacks should be quarantined in [...]

From Ferguson to Baltimore: The Fruits of Government-Sponsored Segregation2016-11-29T17:37:14-05:00
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