To Be Equal

To Be Equal: Why private school vouchers are a failed experiment

“How bad are school vouchers for students? Far worse than most people imagine. Indeed, the use of school vouchers—which provide families with public dollars to spend on private schools—is equivalent to missing out on more than one-third of a year of classroom learning.” 

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To Be Equal: Mourning a champion

This week we lost Judge Damon J. Keith, one of the greatest champions of voting rights in American history. More on his legacy. 

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To Be Equal: Hate Crime Surge Continues With Burning of Black Churches

"A lot of people want to make it a hate thing. Well, we don't represent hate. We represent love. Togetherness. Peace. Long suffering. Hope."

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Ferguson Empowerment Cente Tribute To Movement For Social Change That Followed Michael Brown’s Death [August 2, 2017]

“Ferguson was used by some of America’s enemies and critics to deflect attention from their shortcomings overseas; to undermine our efforts to promote justice around the world … But America is special not because we’re perfect; America is special because we work to address our problems, to make our union more perfect.  We fight for more justice.  We fight to cure what ails us.

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The Color of Money: Reaping the Dividends of Entrepreneurship [March 2, 2016]

“So our people not only have to be reeducated to the importance of supporting black business, but the black man himself has to be made aware of the importance of going into business. And once you and I go into business, we own and operate at least the businesses in our community.

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#BlackLivesMatter: A Rallying Cry for our Times [October 14, 2015]

“This is not a moment, but a movement.” – Black Lives Matter Organization
 
While it is obvious to many of us that all lives matter, it is not so obvious that in our great nation founded on the principles of equality and justice that Black lives matter.

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The Changing Face of America – Circa 2050 [May 23, 2012]

“This is an important tipping point…a transformation from a mostly white baby boomer culture to the more globalized multi-ethnic country that we are becoming.” William Frey, senior demographer, the Brookings Institution

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Trump Employing “Birther” Issue as a Weapon of Mass Distraction [April 26, 2011]

“You can fool some of the people all of the time, and all of the people some of the time, but you cannot fool all of the people all of the time.”  Abraham Lincoln

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I Am Empowered – Are You? [March 3, 2010]

“I pledge to responsibly commit my time and talent to ensure that the nation is empowered to eliminate racial gaps and disparities in housing, education, employment and healthcare by 2025…” 

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Sotomayor Is The American Dream [June 3, 2009]

The National Urban League commends President Obama for his nomination of Judge Sonia Sotomayor to succeed retiring Judge David Souter as the next Associate Justice of the United States Supreme Court.  A current federal Court of Appeals judge in New York, Judge Sotomayor has also served with distinction as a federal district judge, an Assistant District Attorney, a corporate lawyer, a university professor and an advocate

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