Issue: 664

There is another injustice that Jordan could go a long way to making right and it has to do with the very thing that has made him as rich as he is: Air Jordan Nikes and all of the other shoes that he allowed the company to label with his name.

Unless parents, teachers, unions, the clergy, and other activists for public education band together to aggressively push back against this rising tide of school privatization and the corporatization of the wider public sector, there will only be remnants of public institutions that have been the foundation of our democratic society, and our teachers and other public-sector workers will have been sacrificed on the altar of corporate profits.

At the core of Marcus Garvey’s program was his urging of African people to acquire education and economic power. As he always stated, “A race without power is a race without respect.”