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Issue: 677

December 01, 2016

The African World

Black America and the Passing of Fidel Castro

By Bill Fletcher, Jr. Editorial Board

For many of us in Black America, Castro represented the audacity that we have desired and sought in the face of imperial and racial arrogance. While it is unfortunate that some of us have withheld concerns and criticisms out of respect for Castro and the Cuban Revolution, it is completely understandable.

It is impossible to discuss Fidel Castro outside of an examination of the Cuban Revolution. And, while I hear that there are many Cuban Americans dancing…

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Thanks Fidel

Cartoon

Thanks Fidel

By Carlos Latuff

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Commentary

Education Secretary Betsy DeVos, Perfect Storm for School Choice

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

DeVos and her husband, Richard, billionaire heirs of the Amway fortune, have funded elected officials at the city, state, and federal levels of government and school choice advocacy groups for more than three decades, spending hundreds of millions of dollars to get voucher and charter legislation passed and regulations implemented in all fifty states.

President-Elect Donald Trump has inflamed the world of public education with his appointment of Betsy DeVos, America’s foremost female voucher and charter school advocate, as secretary…

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