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Confronting School Choice, Part II: The 1980s in Review

December 6, 2016December 5, 2016 Lindsey E. Jones education reform, NAACP

The issue that occasions this post is the NAACP’s recent call for a moratorium on charter schools until the charter

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Confronting School Choice, Part I: The NAACP’s Charter Moratorium and the Backlash

December 5, 2016December 4, 2016 Lindsey E. Jones civil rights, education reform

On October 15, 2016, the National Association for the Advancement of Colored People (NAACP) announced that its Board of Directors

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The Audacity of “Nope”: Why a Trump Presidency Is No Surprise

December 5, 2016March 17, 2017 Trimiko Melancon 2016 Presidential Election, Barack Obama, Donald Trump, W.E.B. Du Bois

After the 2008 election of Barack H. Obama, the 44th President of the United States, it became customary for some

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The New Black Atheists

December 3, 2016December 2, 2016 Chris Cameron religion

Christianity has played a central role in African-American life from the late 18th century to the present. Black churches raised

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Puerto Ricans, African Americans, and the Pursuit of Racial Justice: An Interview with Sonia Lee

December 3, 2016December 1, 2016 Devyn Spence Benson Activism, black intellectual history, black nationalism, poverty, Puerto Rican history

With the recent election of Donald Trump and the very public hate speech and violence against people of color that

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