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Can Public Boarding Schools Make Education Equal?
With the usual caveat emptor on me and education policy, I point you to an interesting article my friend Steve Gray wrote for TIME recently. Steve’s piece introduced me to a new idea: Public boarding schools for students from poor communities. I so often hear that the complexity of educating kids from neglected neighborhoods and…
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Murder in Binghamton
On Friday Jiverly Wong, after losing his job and feeling ridiculed by his immigrant classmates, walked into Binghamton’s American Civic Association and killed thirteen people. Last week a man walked into a senior citizen center in Carthage, North Carolina and open-fired. Before that another man drove through his Alabama town and killed several. I don’t…
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Black Man on Top of the World
“I was in the lead that had overshot the mark a couple of miles,” Matthew Henson told a reporter in March 1955, relating the moment when, 46 years earlier, he knew he had conquered the world. “We went back then, and I could see that my footprints were the first at the spot.” “The spot”…
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Got Game, But No Diploma
If the championship in NCAA men’s basketball was based on the graduation rates of black players on the teams, it would be Duke and Villanova taking the court tonight in Detroit rather than Michigan State and the University of North Carolina. Both Duke, which lost in the third round, and Villanova who lost to UNC…
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Why the U.S. Must Go to the Race Conference
Underlying President Barack Obama’s historic election as the first African-American president of the United States remains a campaign promise to find new ways of re-engaging the world and to create a “new American leadership” for a “common humanity.” In recent years, unilateral foreign policy endeavors and egregious human rights abuses have resulted in a dramatic…
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Can We Learn From "The Coon Man?"
How appetizing does coon cobbler sound to you? If your response is anywhere along the lines of, “Fool, are you out of your country mind?” you’re exactly the type of person Glemie Dean Beasley is talking about. Beasley is a 69-year-old Detroit raccoon hunter and meat salesman who believes that many of us are unprepared…
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Monday's Headlines
AP: High Court Upholds Abu-Jamal Conviction; Black Militants Still Have ‘Free Mumia’ to Fall Back On AJE: Israeli Army Won’t Shoot Messenger, Will Shoot Medic According to Reports CNN: South African Leader Has Corruption Charges Dropped; South African Leader Not Mandela FG: Finally: Thunder and Lightning Give Us Tickets to the Gun Show ESPN: Class…
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Sunday Brunch: The Week in Review
MONDAY SFC: Six Members of Family Die in Murder-Suicide WP: Surprise, Surprise: Israeli Military Finds No Misconduct in Gaza War FOX: White House Not Super Into Auto Industry Plan, Says ‘Try Again’ NYT: Cholestrol Drug May Cut Risk of Clots; Not a License to Eat More Bacon DS: Dallas Cop Apologizes to Moats (That Should…
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The Secrets of Bobby Womack
Mention the phrase “soul man,” and a litany of names runs through your mind: Otis Redding, James Brown, Wilson Pickett, Al Green, Isaac Hayes, Marvin Gaye, Jackie Wilson, Teddy Pendergrass and, of course, Sam Cooke. Even newbies like Anthony Hamilton and Jaheim are likely to make the cut, particularly for those who like their contemporary soul,…