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President Obama is expected to make an historic visit to Ghana this weekend. His trip to the West African country will be the culmination of a busy week in which he is scheduled to touch base in Russia, then on to Italy for the G8 meetings. As expected, news of the president’s decision has already…

Hollywood movies are as racist as they come. The recently released Transformers sequel (Transformers: Revenge of the Fallen) is no different. In the last week or so, as many have approached theaters where it was being shown, the consensus has been unifying – historical Black stereotypes are evoked in this blockbuster action thriller. Last week,…

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For some, the first five months of Obama’s presidency have marked the dawn of a new era; a time when governance is filtered through the channels of pragmatism and diplomacy. For others, these five months have confirmed a belief long-held before candidate Obama overtook Hillary Clinton to become the Democratic Party’s presidential nominee – that…

Very few are more qualified than Henry Giroux to speak about the troubles and trials plaguing today’s younger generation. In fact, as Dr. Giroux sees it, a war is being waged on this population, pillaging everything they have to offer, in deference to a rabid model of market fundamentalism and neoliberalism. The education system, largely…

Those who are yet to become engaged with the work of Henry Giroux are missing out – big time. He is an accomplished scholar in the fields of education, media, cultural studies, critical pedagogy, and entertainment. As author of more than 35 books, very few public intellectuals can lay claim to the kind of expansive…

Our Schools Suck is an excellent resource for anyone distressed with the “culture of failure” stereotypes commentators, administrators, and politicians have used to disrupt any meaningful intervention into the dilapidated, segregated education system. The authors hold no prisoners in meticulously debunking, dismissing and distilling these much-circulated untruths about “inner-city youth as dark menaces to society,…

“[A] black person who publicly disparages or criticizes other blacks who are speaking or acting in ways that upset whites… [is instantly] granted ‘enhanced standing’ even when the speaker has no special expertise or experience in the subject he or she is criticizing.” —Bell, Derrick. Faces At The Bottom Of The Well: The Permanence Of…

“What does education often do! – It makes a straight-cut ditch of a free, meandering brook.” -Thoreau, Henry David. Uncommon Learning: Thoreau on Education. New York: Mariner Books, 1999, p. 39. “We were maids and farmers, handymen and washerwomen, and anything higher that we aspired to was farcical and presumptuous.” -Angelou, Maya. I Know Why…