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BlackCommentator.com Columnist, Dr. Walter C. Farrell, Jr., PhD, MSPH, is a Fellow of theNational Education Policy Center (NEPC) at the University of Colorado-Boulder and has written widely on vouchers, charter schools,and public school privatization. He has served as Professor of Social Work at the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill and asProfessor of Educational Policy and Community Studies at the University of Wisconsin-Milwaukee. Contact Dr. Farrell and BC.
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None of this would have happened without the exemplary leadership of women who organized voters on the ground and turned them out in record numbers for a run-off race:
The results are in. Georgia’s voters of color have delivered the two Georgia U.S. Senate seats to the Democrats, giving them the Senate majority. Biden especially…
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The question which remains, however, is whether he has sufficiently learned his lesson that politics is about addition, not subtraction.
Joe Biden has promised that his family would not have “any involvement with any foreign government at all” while he is in the White House. He…
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It is imperative that the Biden-Harris administration choose an Education Secretary who is up to redirecting the Department’s emphasis back toward K-12 public education.
If he is to remain true to his commitment to criminal justice reform that he made to the African American community and to George Floyd’s family…
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Given the challenges of remote learning for poor and working-class children coupled with rising hunger, these children and their parents need help, and it needs to occur now as a sign that they and their parents’ votes matter.
Donald Trump is very unlikely to run in 2024 as his hold over his base has waned, and he and his family are likely to be…
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This perilous educational period demands someone who is equipped with a broad skill-set and professional experience, who can hit the ground running and salvage the educational futures of generations to come.
The most progressive House Democrats must realize that the Democratic incumbents they defeated in primaries - e.g., Alexandra Ocasio-Cortez v. Joseph Crowley (Inc.), Jamaal Bowman v.…
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like Hendrik Verwoerd, the architect of apartheid in South Africa, the Republican leadership is fearful of the changing demographics and committed to keeping America’s minority groups, who will make up a collective American majority by 2040, in their place
The Democrats have won the presidency but have not yet won the political power they need to carry out a center-left agenda. Although departing President Trump…
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With the breakout turnout of Black and other Americans, Joe Biden and Kamala Harris are headed for the White House.
We predicted in last week’s column that Biden would win in a landslide or by a narrow margin and that if the latter occurred, Trump would…
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It has become clear that he has no guiding political philosophy or principles other than to turn the presidency into an autocracy where he is free to rule as dictator-in-chief.
James Warren (Jim) Jones, an American religious cult leader, who founded the primarily African American People’s Temple in Indiana in the 1950s, died on November 18,…
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Like a magician in a magic show, Trump’s antics are orchestrated to keep our eyes off the devious political activities that he and Barr are carrying out in plain sight.
Our ‘Crazy Uncle’ Donald Trump, the current President of the United States, is sane. His questionable and strange behavior of late is a distraction designed to…
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