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Anti-African-Immigrant Sentiment Rampant in France
2013 does not only mark the 50th anniversary of the March on Washington. It is also the 30th anniversary of the March on Paris. Thirty years ago, thousands of young French of Arab descent marched from the major cities of the country to the nation’s capital to protest racism and discrimination. The movement was called…
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The Politics of Laughing at Teachers
As a cultural historian, I relish pop-culture productions for their ability to grasp social issues with a subversive twist. As an educator and a scholar devoted to understanding the current failures of the American public educational system, who also happens to be French (speaking of the failure of public education, we wrote the book), I…
Black News and Black Views with a Whole Lotta Attitude
