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Issue: 92

May 27, 2004

Cover Story

Vouchers – The Right’s Final Answer to Brown

By The Black Commentator Guest Commentator

A direct line runs from the “segregation academies” of the post-Brown South and today’s corporate-invented school vouchers “movement.” Both talk the same language: a “freedom of choice” double-speak that would preserve and expand racial and economic privilege. In place of Brown, today’s voucher advocates would subsidize the “choices” that somehow become available in an American…

A direct line runs from the “segregation academies” of the post-Brown South and today’s corporate-invented school vouchers “movement.” Both talk the same language: a “freedom of…

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Commentary

Think Piece: Educational Apartheid

By Paul Street Guest Commentator

Can it really be 50 years since the United States Supreme Court ruled in Brown v.The Board of Education that legal race separation was inherently unequal and therefore unconstitutional in public education? The story and meaning of Brown v. Board is being told, re-told, analyzed, and in some cases even re-enacted in numerous anniversary events…

Can it really be 50 years since the United States Supreme Court ruled in Brown v.The Board of Education that legal race separation was inherently unequal…

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Commentary

Freedom Rider: Wrapped Up in the Rapture

By Margaret Kimberley Guest Commentator

You blind guides, who strain out a gnat and swallow a camel! – Matthew 23:24 It is indeed true that Black Americans are very spiritually minded people. We are more likely to invite friends or acquaintances to church or offer to say a prayer in a time of crisis. The church was the institution we…

You blind guides, who strain out a gnat and swallow a camel! – Matthew 23:24 It is indeed true that Black Americans are very spiritually minded…

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Commentary

Soul Plane

By The Black Commentator Guest Commentator

This article first appeared in Playahata.com and Guerilla Funk. A few years ago, BET’s Bob Johnson announced the formation of DC Air, a budget airline that would have been created to help slide the merger of US Air and United Airlines through Congress with less resistance. Immediately, the joke emails started circulating, with all types…

This article first appeared in Playahata.com and Guerilla Funk. A few years ago, BET's Bob Johnson announced the formation of DC Air, a budget airline that…

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