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Rally for Affirmative Action in Education“We’ve got to rebuild a movement for affirmative action,” said George Washington, an attorney for United for Equality and Affirmative Action Legal Defense...
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BlackAgendaRadio_AlbumArt.jpg Civil Rights Groups “Dropped the Ball” on Affirmative ActionIn their zeal to help the Democratic Party, mainline civil rights organizations have “dropped the ball” on...
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BlackAgendaRadio_AlbumArt.jpg Blacks Disappearing From California University Campuses“Even at African American Studies classes at UC Berkeley, it is now rare that Black students are a majority of the...
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Will Affirmative Action Disappear?
affirmative_action.jpgby Dr. Julianne MalveauxAffirmative action’s final fate may soon be decided by a hostile U.S. Supreme Court, yet there are few signs of a major mobilization by those who still...
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Wages of White Affirmative Action: Predatory Lending & The Ghetto
sikivu_over_ghetto_street_scene.jpg by Sikivu HutchinsonWhites are “returning” to South Central Los Angeles, the place they left for the suburbs in federally subsidized waves generations ago. The lure:...
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20121120_prn-montage.jpg Big Win for Affirmative Action in EducationAffirmative action advocates believe they have a chance to prevail at the U.S. Supreme Court, following an appeals panel ruling that...
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BlackAgendaRadio_AlbumArt.jpg Wal-Mart’s War on WorkersLast week’s job actions at Wal-Mart facilities around the U.S. are largely a response to cuts imposed on employee hours. “Wal-Mart has been...
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Diversity Survives (Barely), But Affirmative Action is Long Dead
MLKandLBJ.jpgby BAR executive editor Glen Ford“Diversity” has been given a tentative reprieve by the U.S. Supreme Court, but affirmative action died 35 years ago. “The journey from affirmative action...
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20130919-prn.jpgObama Still Looking for War ExcuseThe Obama administration is “thrashing everywhere to find a new excuse to rev up another war threat,” said Sara Flounders, of UNAC, the United National...
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Public Enemy or Talented Tenth? The War Against Black Children
school-to-prison.jpgby Sikivu HutchinsonBlacks are the scapegoats for America’s failure to keep pace in the world. “For a nation brainwashed into believing the U.S. is an exceptionalist beacon, the...
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The Field Negroes’ Agenda: Reclamation, Reparations and Repatriation
FieldNegro.jpgby Mark P. FancherThe author believes African liberation and the fall of U.S. imperialism can be achieved by triumph of the “Three R’s”: Reclamation, Reparations and Repatriation. In...
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Supreme Court: White Majorities Über Alles
Affirmative-Action-demonstration.jpgby BAR executive editor Glen Ford“Black folks have no rights that white majorities are bound to respect.” That’s the message from the U.S. Supreme Court, which...
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BlackAgendaRadio_AlbumArt.jpgPhilly Throws a Party for MumiaMumia Abu Jamal’s hometown turned out for a day-long celebration of the nation’s best-known political prisoner’s 60th birthday. “This...
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