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

These unprecedented realities provide an unforeseen occasion for public school teachers and supporters to push back aggressively against the state and federal governments and corporate agenda to privatize public education for profit.

The Trump Administration has already changed school lunches, for the worse, and has cut funding for after-school programs that have been of greatest assistance to poor children of color in the nation’s large and small urban centers. It is becoming apparent that Trump is not only bamboozling HBCU Presidents but that he is deceiving us all.

Trump’s ability to co-opt his erstwhile adversaries into working with and/or supporting him, such as HBCU and grassroots leaders, minority social justice organizations, and clergy has positioned him to oppress the citizens they allegedly represent.

the Cartel has systematically recruited a cross-section of ethnic minorities to serve as the faces of their various school choice initiatives. At the same time, it paid state- and federal-level politicians to significantly reduce funding for those public schools that the majority of minority children attend.

Marshall’s decision to call on Mr. Coleman was instrumental in the NAACP’s victory over public school segregation in the Brown ruling.

Mary Elizabeth Taylor is an attractive, young African American woman who sits directly behind Judge Gorsuch. Ms. Taylor's nonstop cameo appearances give Gorsuch the look of being racially sensitive and diverse in his thinking and relationships.

few are paying close attention to the implementation of the Trump administration’s primary objective, the implementation of his “Deep State” initiative, designed to reduce the reach and protections of the federal government. It is pursuing the creation of a feudal, white nationalist state in which personal freedoms will be restricted, and immigration will be downsized.