Low net worth means low performing schools
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Protest. Petition. Call your senators. Nothing changes, right? No matter how large our demonstrations get, no matter how many millions of people write and petition politicians, no matter how many people get arrested in front of the White House or at our state capitols, it seems that our (supposedly) elected officials keep turning a blind eye and deaf ear to our cries for change.
In the 1950s, Topeka, Kansas, where Linda Brown lived, like a lot of America had dual de facto school systems. One for Black children and one for white children. Black children might be living only a few blocks away from a school but could not attend that school if it was a “white” school. Instead Black children would be shuttled miles away from their neighborhood school to a “Black” school.
Donna Christensen joins Black AIDS Institutes Board of Directors
Political analyst and author Donna Brazile delivered a stirring address about the “State of the Black Press in 2018” at the National Press Club in Washington, D.C., capping off the National Newspaper Publishers Association’s (NNPA) annual Black Press Week.
Racists Fear Black Power
New Book, ‘The Grass Is The First To Go’, tackles violence, morality, race and politics
Black Author/ Activist Elevates The #Metoo Movement — Establishes new rules for how men should interact with women in the workplace
Bill Cosby’s criminal retrial on sexual assault charges set to begin with jury selection on March 29 after Montgomery County, Pennsylvania Judge Steven O’Neill rejected the comedian’s request to have the charges against him dismissed.
—The American Association of Blacks in Energy is a Black think tank focused on energy policies, emerging technologies, and environmental issues.