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The African American Role in the Privatization of Public Education: Notes from the Field – The Farrell Report Defending Public Education y Dr. Walter C. Farrell, Jr., PhD, M.S.P.H. BC Columnist

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Condoleezza Rice, who coauthored a report championing school choice and privatization for the Council on Foreign Affairs; Gen. Colin and Alma Powell who promote choice through their America’s Promise non-profit; and the Hon. Andrew Young, Congressman Charles Rangel, Martin Luther King, III, Robert Johnson, founder and former CEO of BET, and Will Smith, the actor, all of whom have served on the National Advisory Board of the Children’s Scholarship Fund, a major private-funder of vouchers for urban school children of color.

Note: We welcome Dr. Farrell as a BC columnist. His writings will appear on a regular basis. Public education has historically served as a lifeline for…

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Tragic Death Becomes Xenophobic Assault on Immigrant Rights

By The Black Commentator Guest Commentator

This tragedy has become a soap box for Trump and his supporters to promote an anti-immigrant agenda, lumping all immigrants as criminals; and, attacking sanctuary city policies like San Francisco’s, which prevents local police from automatically detaining people on the basis of being undocumented.

On Friday, July 1, 2015 Kate Steinle was taking a casual stroll on Pier on San Francisco’s Pier 14 with her father, when the unthinkable happened,…

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Full Frontal GOP Assualt Against Workers Continues – Solidarity America

By The Black Commentator Guest Commentator

The government agencies, such as the U.S. Department of Labor and others, are either incapable of protecting the working class or are under instruction (however it’s done) of the major parties’ representatives in Congress not to give workers too much of a boost in their personal lives.

Jeb Bush, Republican candidate for his party’s nomination for president, recently said that Americans must work longer hours, to be more productive and to gain for…

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Does Black America Understand We’ve Declared War On the Confederacy?

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Black folks have “declared war” on millions and millions of proud Rednecks . . . and their Conservative sympathizers, yet we’ve no way, no means to fight this war other than to appeal to “good” White folks” to help us/save us from “bad” White folks.

There’re consequences and repercussions for just about everything . . . . With that notion in mind, as I ran-across the news and discovered the Atlanta…

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Pension Stealing One Percenters – Used by Occupy Düsseldorf – From the BC

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New Lynching Documentation In 12 Southern States Reveals Horrifying New

By The Black Commentator Guest Commentator

“Blacks were lynched for knocking on a white woman's door, refusing to remove an Army uniform after World War II and bumping into a white girl while running for a train. Often, Stevenson said, the hangings became public carnivals designed to instill fear."

I may-not be the most “interesting” man in the world, but I do have a vast-array of fascinations; I’m monitoring the search for both the “Yeti”…

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June 19, 2015 – BlackCommentator.com Extra: We Must Respond to the Right-wing

By The Black Commentator Guest Commentator

White supremacists are not restrained or constrained by the fact that the targets of their hatred may be people of faith. As far as the white supremacists are concerned, those murdered in Charleston are not worshiping the same Creator of All Things as are the white supremacists.

I never cease to be amazed by the speed and the ability of the political Right to distort the truth. The attempt by the political Right…

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June 19, 2015 – BlackCommentator.com Extra: We Must Respond to the Right-wing

By The Black Commentator Guest Commentator

White supremacists are not restrained or constrained by the fact that the targets of their hatred may be people of faith. As far as the white supremacists are concerned, those murdered in Charleston are not worshiping the same Creator of All Things as are the white supremacists.

I never cease to be amazed by the speed and the ability of the political Right to distort the truth. The attempt by the political Right…

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The last “caged” Black Panther, Albert Woodfox will not go

By The Black Commentator Guest Commentator

We want education for our people that exposes the true nature of this decadent American society. We want education that teaches us our true history and our role in the present day society.

The last “caged” Black Panther, Albert Woodfox is, in the words of Louisiana’s Attorney general “the most dangerous person on the planet.” Go ’head bra’ .…

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