SACKS: Conservatives Get It Wrong On Black Poverty And The Public School System — Heres Why

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SACKS: Conservatives Get It Wrong On Black Poverty And The Public School System — Heres Why

he blames teachers unions for black Americans’ lack of educational opportunities, (aka “school choice”) — hurts African American children by draining critical funds as conservatives say, that many African Americans support “school choice.” Given their

Source: The Daily Caller

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Zimbabwe: Unions Raise Concern Over Schools Reopening

Giving oral evidence yesterday before the Parliamentary Portfolio Committee on Primary and Secondary Education, teachers' unions said the taskforce should consist of all stakeholders including Government, donors and other interested

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The Boston Teachers Union drew fire from the Boston Police Patrolmen's Association in February over their support for the Black Lives Matter

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Latinos follow Black Americans in being devastated by police violence, data shows

“Of course the years of systemic racism and voicelessness are not near the same level the Black community has been forced to endure,” AL DÍA News’ Ericka Conant rightfully notes, “but the recent deaths of multiple Latinx individuals at the hands of police have reignited the call to end police

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NAPIER: Kenya ought to review its tax incentive model

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Teachers brew fresh shocker for govt - NewsDay Zimbabwe

GOVERNMENT faces a new headache after eight teachers’ unions demanded an urgent meeting with their employer over salaries which they say now fall far below the poverty datum line of $5 551. BY VENERANDA LANGA The unions are demanding US$550 monthly salary and have threatened not to go back to work

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Georgia Police Sued For Taking Down Wrong Man | The Florida Star | The Georgia Star

Body camera video shows Antonio Arnelo Smith handing his driver’s license to a Black police officer and answering questions cooperatively before a white officer walks up behind him, wraps him in a bear hug, and slams him face-first to the ground. “Oh my God, you broke my wrist!” the 46-year-old

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Source: The Florida Star

Human Rights Watch Calls For Tulsa Race Massacre Reparations A Century After Violence | The Oklahoma Eagle

Human Rights Watch argued that beyond the physical destruction, the state and city government created polices of structural racism that kept black people in Tulsa from

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Baltimore Sees Steady Progress in COVID-19 Battle | Afro

While the city has seen a significant decline in the number of new cases of infections resulting from the virus, concern remains that moving too quickly to a sense of normalcy is risky and could erase any progress made to

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Louisville Seeks US Review Of Police Killing Of Black Woman

LOUISVILLE, Ky. (AP) — Louisville officials have now asked the U.S. Justice Department and the FBI to review the police department’s internal investigation of the killing of a black woman by officers raiding her home two months

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As COVID-19 Hits African Americans Hardest, Disparities in Patient Safety, Health Care Evident

African Americans patients with COVID-19 were 2.7 times more likely than non-Hispanic white COVID-19 patients to be hospitalized and came in sicker with more severe symptoms, according to a recent study in the medical journal Health

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Tale of two murals

In 1966, Joe Waller, now known as Omali Yeshitela marched into City Hall along with supporters and ripped a racist mural from the wall By Goliath J. Davis, III, Ph.D., Contributor ST. PETERSBURG I still vividly remember the uproar U.S. Housing Secretary Henry Cisneros caused when he visited

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Virginia city removes 176-year-old slave auction block

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Bank of England says sorry for slave links as UK faces past

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PART TWO: 400 YEARS OF WHITE FEET ON BLACK NECKS IN AMERICA

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By AP / BNC Contributor SEATTLE (AP) — Crews arrived with heavy equipment arrived early Friday at Seattles occupied protest zone, apparently ready to dismantle barriers set up by demonstrators, but halted work when demonstrators resisted, including by lying on top of some of the makeshift

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Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr. - Status of His Dream Today

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States Reverse Openings, Require Masks Amid Virus Resurgence

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Mayor: Officer Who Put Knee on Man’s Neck Should Be Charged

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For The Safety Of Our Community | The Florida Star | The Georgia Star

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