Education And Public Education

Black Agenda Report for Week of October 3, 2016
03 Oct 2016
Clinton is Far More Anti-Crime Than Pro-Justice When Donald Trump and Hillary Clinton clashed over stop-and-frisk at their first televised debate, Clinton only weakly addressed “the idea of racial…
Leonida Odong
Climate Change and Human Rights: A Call for International Solidarity
21 Sep 2016
by Leonida Odongo Overproduction and overconsumption in the rich, northern parts of the planet have “imbalanced the world as far as climate change is concerned.” The poor of the Global South fight…
Georgia’s Governor Wants To Turn His Public Schools Into Post Katrina New Orleans
15 Sep 2016
A Black Agenda Radio Commentary by BAR managing editor Bruce A. Dixon An utterly cynical and deceptively marketed constitutional amendment is on the ballot in Georgia. It’s called the “Opportunity…
Sarah D. Sparks and Alex Harwin
Corporal Punishment Use Found in Schools in 21 States, with Blacks Punished Twice as Often
07 Sep 2016
by Sarah D. Sparks & Alex Harwin A long list of states -- centered in but not confined to the South -- continue to engage in the largely unregulated practice of physically punishing students. “…
NAACP and Movement for Black Lives Call for Moratorium on Charter Schools
10 Aug 2016
A Black Agenda Radio commentary by executive editor Glen Ford “The NAACP and the Movement for Black Lives are both on the same page when it comes to charter schools.” Both organizations called for a…
Danny Haiphong , BAR contributor
The Obama legacy Part III: Destroying Public Education As We Know It
13 Jul 2016
by Danny Haiphong No president has done more damage to education than Barack Obama, who has “virtually eliminated public education in service of capitalists such as Eli Broad and Bill Gates.” His…
Black Agenda Radio for Week of July 11, 2016
12 Jul 2016
Cops Kill Revolutionary Black Panther Leader Friends and comrades of Angelo Brown, also known as General Houdari Juelani, charge he was “assassinated” by police in Belleville, Illinois, near East St…
Black Agenda Radio for Week of June 6, 2016
07 Jun 2016
McKinney: Duopoly is Imploding, But What Comes Next? The 2016 election is going to be “written about and studied for a very long time,” said six-term former Georgia Democratic Congresswoman Cynthia…
Black Agenda Radio for Week of May 30, 2016
31 May 2016
Jill Stein: U.S. Electoral “House of Cards” Coming Down Presidential candidate Jill Stein has an answer tor those Democrats that accuse the Greens of offering themselves as “spoilers” who would throw…
Black Agenda Radio for Week of May 9, 2016
10 May 2016
Detroit Teachers “Browbeaten” Back to Work by National Union The two-day teachers sick-out that closed Detroit public schools last week was about much more than paycheck issues, said Steve Conn, the…