680 – Black Commentator

Cover Story

We Are Not Exceptional – Just Average

By Dr. Julianne Malveaux, PhD Editorial Board

those who do educational policy must look at the ways our students are lagging in the international environment. Are we content to be 14th, 22nd, 34th in international measures, while, at the same time, talking exceptionalism. We aren’t especially exceptional when it comes to learning, we are merely average, and often below average when we review international measures.

We in these United States love to bask in the glory of our “exceptionalism”. We are great, we are wonderful, we dominate the world. Scholars who…

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Cartoon

Welcome 2017

By Carlos Latuff

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Color of Law

Is Megyn Kelly a Racist or Does She Just Play One On TV?

By David A. Love, JD Executive Editor

does a news host who claims Jesus and Santa are white have anything to say that we need to hear? The prospects are frightening, and as frightening as America’s new president. Because the normalization—and the whitewashing—of Megyn Kelly goes hand in hand with the attempts to normalize Donald Trump.

Have a twitter account? Use the link below and log in to retweet Join the BC #ismegynkellyracist? hashtag Here’s the question: Is Megyn Kelly really a…

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Commentary

Is There a Great Awakening for America?

By John Funiciello Columnist

There are few among the millions of Trump voters whose families or neighbors are not beneficiaries of so many of the programs that Trump and the GOP have in their sights. They will do this by privatizing, which they claim will do the work more efficiently.

The American people are stirring, they may be awakening, and it just may be caused by the election of Donald Trump and what he said he…

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Commentary

The Obama-Trump-DeVos Public Education Assault: A Final Surge?

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

What is readily apparent is that the U.S. Education Secretary-Designate and the Cartel have employed a comprehensive organizing scheme that has been supported by a bipartisan group of politicians and a diverse array of grassroots and civil rights advocates.

The war against teachers and other public-sector unions continues in the open on January 21, 2016, after a night of inaugural celebrations on January 20th, and…

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Guest Commentary

Hubert Harrison – Growing Appreciation for this Giant of Black History – December 17 Marked the 89th Anniversary of His Death

By Dr. Jeffrey B. Perry, PhD Guest Commentator

His ideas on the centrality of the struggle against white supremacy anticipated the profound transformative power of the Civil Rights/Black Liberation struggles of the 1960s and his thoughts on “democracy in America” offer penetrating insights on the limitations and potential of America in the twenty-first century.

Hubert Harrison (1883-1927), the “father of Harlem radicalism” and founder of the militant “New Negro Movement,” is a giant of our history. He was extremely important…

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Sharp n’ Blunt

White Nationalism, Global Wasp Supremacy and Cold-Cash “Trump” Good Ol’ Fashioned American Patriotism

By Desi Cortez Columnist

most White folks believe the Founding Fathers never had any intentions of creating this land for “you people” and today in 2017 they still concur with that primitive, colonial mentality.

2017 is going to be the year of “stand-up, or be rolled-over” for black Americans, and for that matter most Americans of color. We’re about to…

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Commentary

Remembering the Durban 400

By Dr. Conrad W. Worrill, PhD Columnist

How mighty can the United States be without acknowledging, apologizing, and paying reparations to African people for the Greatest Crime Against Humanity they participated in, the Trans Atlantic Slave Trade, Slavery, and Colonialism?

It has been fifteen years since the historic United Nations World Conference Against Racism took place in Durban, South Africa. We should always remember the role…

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