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Issue: 401

Nov 11, 2010

Commentary

The Struggle to Change the Curriculum

By Dr. Conrad W. Worrill, PhD Columnist

Part of our repair as an African people is the continued struggle to organize to challenge the teaching of African and Africans in America history in the public schools of America. This issue should continue to be a priority on our educational organizing agenda. Throughout the development of education in the western world, the idea…

Part of our repair as an African people is the continued struggle to organize to challenge the teaching of African and Africans in America history in…

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Commentary

Analyzing The 2010 Mid-Term Elections: Not As “Gloom and Doom” As We Think – Between the Lines

By Dr. Anthony Asadullah Samad, PhD Columnist

The election night results brought forth a much expected outcome, a Republican takeover of the House of Representatives and some “slippage” in Democrat seats held in the Senate. The reasons were several for the outcome, but it is not the end of the world. The Democrats (and everybody else) need to stop their snivelin’. Wipe…

The election night results brought forth a much expected outcome, a Republican takeover of the House of Representatives and some “slippage” in Democrat seats held in…

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Commentary

Stopping the Decline of the Black Middle Class

By Dr. Algernon Austin Guest Commentator -

For a brief moment in American history, one could argue that the majority of African Americans were middle class. That moment ended last year. One definition of “middle class” used by social scientists is twice the poverty level. Individuals who live in households that have an income of at least two times the household’s federal…

For a brief moment in American history, one could argue that the majority of African Americans were middle class. That moment ended last year. One definition…

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