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Issue: 326

May 28, 2009

Commentary

Education for African People: The Real Meaning

By Dr. Conrad W. Worrill, PhD Columnist

Throughout most of our lives, African people in America have been told if you get a good education you can get a good job. African people in Africa were told something similar. If you get a good education your condition in life will improve. In the early part of the twentieth-century until the late 1960s…

Throughout most of our lives, African people in America have been told if you get a good education you can get a good job. African people…

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Commentary

“Our Schools Suck”: A Book Review – The Substance of Truth

By Tolu Olorunda Columnist

Our Schools Suck is an excellent resource for anyone distressed with the “culture of failure” stereotypes commentators, administrators, and politicians have used to disrupt any meaningful intervention into the dilapidated, segregated education system. The authors hold no prisoners in meticulously debunking, dismissing and distilling these much-circulated untruths about “inner-city youth as dark menaces to society,…

Our Schools Suck is an excellent resource for anyone distressed with the “culture of failure” stereotypes commentators, administrators, and politicians have used to disrupt any meaningful…

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Commentary

Nation’s Rulers Disconnected from Everyday Lives of Americans

By John Funiciello Columnist

It’s significant that President Obama cited “empathy” as one of the attributes that he would look for in a U.S. Supreme Court nominee. Significant, because that quality seems to be lacking in the halls of power in America, including the court, itself. Predictably, the chatterers on the nation’s air waves, who provide the delivery system…

It’s significant that President Obama cited “empathy” as one of the attributes that he would look for in a U.S. Supreme Court nominee. Significant, because that…

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Commentary

Letter to The Honorable Douglas Shulman – National Affairs

By Lawrence R. Velvel, JD Columnist

The Honorable Douglas Shulman Commissioner, Internal Revenue Service 1111 Constitution Avenue, N.W. Department of Treasury Washington, DC 20224 Dear Commissioner Shulman: I do not know whether you are aware that in July of 2004, in the midst of Harry Markopolos’ revelations to the SEC that Bernard Madoff was operating a Ponzi scheme, the Internal Revenue…

The Honorable Douglas Shulman Commissioner, Internal Revenue Service 1111 Constitution Avenue, N.W. Department of Treasury Washington, DC 20224 Dear Commissioner Shulman: I do not know whether…

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Commentary

Conditions are Deteriorating, Allies are Few – Women of Color

By Suzanne Brooks Columnist

It is disappointing that after discussions and correspondence with the Campaign for Gender Equality, Women Count and others, women of color are as marginalized by these groups as by society at large. There is no mention at all of the intersection of racism and sexism which only impacts women of color. This clearly reflects the…

It is disappointing that after discussions and correspondence with the Campaign for Gender Equality, Women Count and others, women of color are as marginalized by these…

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Guest Commentary

“Barking at the Light of the Moon…”

By Dr. Carlos E. Russell Guest Commentator

I do not envy President Barack Obama. Yes, he may be, as some would argue one of the most, if not the most, powerful person on the planet and, as such, is the object of envy of many. Also, he is where he is because he tenaciously sought and fought for the political space which,…

I do not envy President Barack Obama. Yes, he may be, as some would argue one of the most, if not the most, powerful person on…

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