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Issue: 621

September 17, 2015

Guest Commentary

Dismantling Public Education from Reagan to Obama: Public School Privatization, Race to the Top (RTTT), and Common Core

By Dr. Walter C. Farrell, Jr., PhD, MSPH Guest Commentator

a perfect storm appears to be emerging that is systematically downsizing public education as we know it. RTTT and Common Core are the main policies that many view as contributing to an evolving crisis in K-12 education. They have been fostered by the five most recent U.S. presidents with the most significant contributor being the Obama Administration.

Public education has been under constant attack for more than three decades as conservative corporate, intellectual, and political reformers have devised policies and practices to dismantle…

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Tapping Racism

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Tapping Racism

By Eric Garcia Cartoonist/Artist

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View from the Battlefield

Living Wages Require Worker Solidarity

By Jamala Rogers Editorial Board

"Do workers really need to be protecting the interests of the One Percent?"

September 17, 2015 - Issue 621 var addthis_config = {"data_track_clickback":true}; Living Wages Require Worker Solidarity "Do workers really need to be protecting the interests of the…

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Color of Law

Racism Is Hurting Black Children: Medical Study Finds Doctors Less Likely to Give Painkillers to Black Children Than Whites

By David A. Love, JD Executive Editor

Perhaps some physicians harbor a racist belief, given the criminalization of Black people and the war on drugs, that Black children are more prone to addiction. And even worse, perhaps some doctors even feel that Black and Latino children are less worthy of receiving the medications in the first place.

Racism can kill you, and a new medical study proves that racial discrimination is causing Black children extreme pain in the ER. A study from JAMA…

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Guest Commentary

White Banal Nationalism And The Richland High School Rebels

By Ed Sebesta Guest Commentator

the impact of Confederate symbols, monuments and other manifestations of Confederate identity, when used by institutions and government, is the normalization of the Confederacy. It sends the message is that the Confederacy isn’t so bad since if it was certainly we would avoid this identity.

Telling a black player, “see, everyone is white on the inside,” after the player cut her leg after sliding into a base.” [3] Rev. Tatum announced…

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Commentary

Drama and Deadlines

By Dr. Julianne Malveaux, PhD Editorial Board

Why are House Republicans so determined to have a budget showdown? Part of it is their determination to end federal funding for Planned Parenthood. They refuse to understand that, in addition to providing abortion service, Planned Parenthood provides basic women’s health services, including gynecological examinations.

Congress must approve a budget by October 1, or our government will shut down. That means that people will not be paid and technically, government departments…

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Commentary

Where Does All The (Taxpayers’) Money Go?

By John Funiciello Columnist

Name any social or physical problem that a society might have and the U.S. has it to spare. A stagnant pool of politicians in Washington, D.C., does not seem to be willing or able to do anything about it.

People in the U.S. wonder every day: Why is this part of our society not working or why do we seem to be sinking economically, politically,…

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Commentary

Remembering The 1996-97 NBUF Genocide Campaign

By Dr. Conrad W. Worrill, PhD Columnist

the CIA has done business with - and protected criminals whose victims were not in foreign lands but in the inner cities of the United States of America.”

August 18 - 20, 1996, the San Jose Mercury News published a three part series entitled, “Dark Alliance” written by Gary Webb. Webb explained in this…

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