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April 07, 2016

Cover Story

Martin Luther King, Jr.’s Expansive Dream

By The Reverend Irene Monroe Editorial Board

Moral leadership played a profound role in the justice work that King did. He argued that true moral leadership must involve itself in the situations of all who are damned, disinherited, disrespected, and dispossessed, and moral leadership must be part of a participatory government that is feverishly working to dismantle the existing discriminatory laws that truncate full participation in the fight to advance democracy.

Note: This commentary was originally published by BC over ten years ago. It is an excellent example of the strength and depth of our archives. Many…

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Commentary

I’ve Been to the Mountaintop – Martin Luther King, Jr – April 3, 1968

By The Black Commentator Guest Commentator

Let us rise up tonight with a greater readiness. Let us stand with a greater determination. And let us move on in these powerful days, these days of challenge to make America what it ought to be. We have an opportunity to make America a better nation.

Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr. delivered this speech in support of the striking sanitation workers at Mason Temple in Memphis, TN on April 3, 1968 —…

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Color of Law

‘Teaching for the Test:’ Why More Black Parents are Joining the Opt-Out Movement Against Statewide Standardized Testing

By David A. Love, JD Executive Editor

While white parents often have found themselves at odds with people of color — believing they must attempt to flee from Black and Brown people in order to secure a better education for their children — whites in the opt-out movement are realizing the need to join forces.

Is the opt-out movement coming to a community near you? The traditionally white space, typically the purview of suburban white parents, is an effort to remove…

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Commentary

Connecting the Dots: Cartel Public School Privatization—the Stealth Attempt to Place another Broad Superintendent in Trenton, New Jersey, Part XVIII

By Dr. Walter C. Farrell, Jr., PhD, M.S.P.H. Columnist

Broad’s objectives are to: demonize teachers and their unions; promote virtual and bricks and mortar charter schools; run public schools through a corporate business model; reduce the number of union jobs in school districts; privatize school services; promote high stakes testing; and push as much money into the private sector as possible.

There it goes again; the Cartel of public school privatization advocates has targeted Trenton, New Jersey for the appointment of another Broad Superintendent Academy (BSA)-influenced candidate…

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Commentary

Just Imagine – that Corey Lewandowski was Black!

By Dr. Julianne Malveaux, PhD Editorial Board

Americans interested in seeing the major parties adopt more progressive stances in eliminating racial and class divisions, including poverty, should seek to support an independent front, or third party, that could at least influence the policies adopted by the Democrats and Republicans.

It is probably not especially politically correct to bring more race matters into the debacle that is also known as the Donald Trump quest for the…

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Commentary

New York Legislator Calls For Curb On Free Speech On City Colleges’ Campuses

By John Funiciello Columnist

Part of the heated debate is the proposed restrictions on free speech, on campuses and elsewhere and it even has resulted in the call for removal of the offending groups that have called for human rights for Palestinians.

Although he would not couch it in terms of totally curbing the free speech rights of an entire group, New York State Assembly Member Dov Hikind…

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Sharp n’ Blunt

On the Behalf Of all Americans of Color,Thank you Mr Trump

By Desi Cortez Columnist

Trump's told the burning bush truth, at least the Euro-American’s version of current affairs, and I thank him for that honesty, be it based in arrogance or ignorance.

On the behalf of all Americans of color, every single one of us . . . I’d like to tender to Donald J. Trump a sincere…

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Commentary

Reviewing The Black Nationalist Movement

By Dr. Conrad W. Worrill, PhD Columnist

The Black Nationalist tradition has always been opposed to integrations, assimilation, and accommodation as a solution to the problems of people of African ancestry in America. In this regard, Black Nationalist tradition has rejected the strategy and tactics of appealing to the morality of white people and their white supremacy system.

One of the biggest challenges African people face in America is to rejuvenate Black Nationalist thinking as struggle to determine for ourselves as a people what…

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