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Issue: 784

April 11, 2019

Commentary

Public Education, 2020 Dem Presidential Candidates and Fundraising

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

The signature efforts to advance publicly-funded private school vouchers, corporate charter schools, and other public school privatization initiatives occurred while Democrats were in control of the House, the Senate, and/or the U.S. Presidency.

K-12 Public Education is slowly becoming a factor in the 2020 Democratic Presidential nomination contest. Sen. Kamala Harris has made the biggest splash with her proposal…

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Commentary

Harvesting New Generations – Worrill’s World

By Dr. Conrad W. Worrill, PhD Columnist

the more we began to emulate our former slave masters, the worse the internal social conditions of the African American became. Today these conditions are at an all-time low. We have thousands of African American children today who have had virtually no positive family input into their development.

The impact of African people being captured in the slave trade and introduced into the western hemisphere as property and commodity are at the root of…

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