Brown v. Board of Education
Republicans Undermining Student Equity Law says Top House Democrat
Thursday, Chairman Robert C. “Bobby” Scott (VA-03) issued the following statement to commemorate the 5th anniversary of the passage of the Every Student Succeeds ...
Do America’s Public Schools Owe Black People Reparations?
[Reparations for Education] Education Week: “This process of reconciliation and Reparations is essential for understanding contemporary K-12 racial disparities, rebuilding trust, and restructuring an ...
Post-George Floyd Protests–A Moment or a Movement? The Blowback Will Tell
Columnist Dr. Leon. On June 4, the Rev. Al Sharpton said, “George Floyd should not be among the deceased. He did not die of ...
CONGRESSMAN INTRODUCES BILL TO HONOR AFRICAN-AMERICAN PHILADELPHIA TRAILBLAZER
[William T. Coleman, Jr.\ H.R. 5937] Coleman was the second African American ever to serve in the U.S. Cabinet. He was appointed by President ...
Tribute: Children Who Fought for Freedom In America
Little Sheyann Webb. Photo-wikipedia.org One eight year old freedom fighter was suspended from school I wrote recently about a few of the brave children ...
As Dr. Martin Luther King Said If We Can Spend Billions On Unjust Wars We Should Spend Billions On Full Employment
More than 50 years ago Dr. King warned about income inequality and poor wages [Commentary: The Economy] In 1954, when the U.S. Supreme Court ...
Filing An Amicus Brief in the “High Court” Reparations Now!
Alton H. Maddox, Jr. In Adam Liptak “Supreme Court To Weigh Race In Admissions,” N.Y. Times, June 30, 2015 at A1, the U.S. Supreme ...
2014: The Meaning of July Fourth For The African American
Frederick Douglass From Frederick Douglass’s “The Meaning of July Fourth for the Negro – 1852”: “I say it with a sad sense of ...