When riots broke out after citizens of Ferguson took to the streets to protest the murder of Mike Brown by a police officer, the media was littered with imagery and stories of violent and savage Black people destroying the city. To a large extent, those [...]
By Jeff Bryant | Originally Published at Education Opportunity Network. October 17, 2014 at 7:49 am | Illustration Credit; The Blind Elephant Collective Jessica Tobin Sometimes when you get enough people beating on the outside of a building, those sitting comfortably on the inside start to feel [...]
By Kevin Solari | Originally Published at In These Times. October 17, 2014 | Chicago Public Schools former CEO Arne Duncan can smile for the kids, but not for their schools. (US Department of Education / Flickr) Judging by a new study put out by the Institute [...]
By Jennifer Keys Adair | Originally Published at Huffington Post. October 15, 2014 12:16 pm EDT Updated: December 15, 2014 5:59 am EST In the aftermath of Ferguson police officer Darren Wilson shooting and killing Michael Brown, I have been thinking about what young children are picking [...]
By Tiffanie Drayton | Originally Published at The Frisky. October 15, 2014 In case you are unaware, there is something called “The Whiteness Project.” Per the website, the project, from documentary director Whitney Dow, is “a multiplatform investigation into how Americans who identify as ‘white’ experience their [...]
By Marian Wang | Originally Published at ProPublica. October 15, 2014, 5:45 AM Every Year Millions In Public $$ Go To This Entrepreneur’s Charter Schools and For-Profit Companies He Controls. Baker Mitchell is a politically connected North Carolina businessman who celebrates the power of the [...]
By Ron Lester Whyte | Originally Published at Black Girl Dangerous. October 14, 2014 anti racism by zzalde What do the deaths of Aiyana Jones, Trayvon Martin, Andy Lopez, and Michael Brown, the 2012 Wisconsin Sikh Temple shooting, and the continued exploitation and occupation of Native lands [...]
Imagine a system of college education supported by high and growing government spending on elite private universities that mainly educate children of the wealthy and upper-middle class, and low and declining government spending on public universities that educate large numbers of children from the working [...]
By Robert B. Reich | Originally Published at Robert B. Reich. October 13, 2014 | Photographic Credit; People are led on a tour group at the campus of Harvard University in Cambridge, Massachusetts. Reich argues that by way of tax deductible contributions from wealthy donors, the federal [...]
