by Education Radio
Founded in 1990 by Wendy Kopp, Teach For America has become the personnel agency for corporate school reform. School districts fire experienced, often black teachers to hire underpaid TFA recruits with 5 weeks training to do brief "missionary work" stints in public schools before moving on. Turning teaching into Wal-Mart style temp work is what TFA is all about.
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If the Democrats continue to behave as if the working class is white, they won’t be able to count on huge Black turnouts at the polls, said activist and public interest attorney Malaik
John Conyers’ long career is a window on the decline of Black politics in the two generations since the demise of the mass Black movement.
The Democrats and corporate media don’t really oppose what Donald Trump is doing in Syria or anywhere else.
US imperialism is white supremacist capital on a global rampage, and must be countered by mass mobilizations of the oppressed -- like this weekend’s Black Is Back Coalition march on the White House
Rwanda's democratic opposition leader says “there is no space for people to speak freely and peacefully and engage in real democratic process in Rwanda.”
