Why has America and the Black community been silent about this epidemic? We hear so much about the 47 percent drop-out rate among Black males, but I believe a 40 percent drop-out rate among Black females is outrageous and unacceptable. Black males may be on life support, but Black females are in critical condition.
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Right Wing gets it wrong on Mississippi
If you ever doubted that conservatives were sore losers, the recent Senate election in Mississippi should remove all doubt.
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Joint Center: Once bastion of Black political research pressing to survive
The Joint Center for Political and Economic Studies, esteemed as America’s foremost think tank for Black political and economic research, is struggling with financial problems so serious that its political arm has been gutted and its interim president is working for free.
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Closed mouths don’t get fed—time to roar!
As the constitutional deadline for adopting California’s budget approached Sunday evening, California’s families in need, many of them families of color, should have been able to breathe a sigh of relief.
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Celebrating positive Black Fathers
As we approach Fathers’ Day, it is important to lift up those Black American fathers who are doing what is right and good for their children, families, and communities. Too often when the issue of Black men is raised, it is done from a negative or pathological perspective.
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‘Belle:’ What a Movie!
These days, the old saying about “art imitating life” is more commonly applicable to motion pictures rather than old form stage plays. I have had the opportunity to see a lot of movies and consider myself a pretty good judge of “must see” films. “Belle” fits well into this category.
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Child Watch
“Foster care is not fun for anyone,” says 24-year-old law student Amy Peters, who entered Nebraska’s foster care system at age 12 and remained until she “aged out” at 19.
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Indenturing our young people
The young in America are being forced into cruel levels of debt, and this debt is already curbing their life prospects. Its economic effects are damaging to everyone. Yet with Washington frozen, the debt burdens on the young are likely to get worse.
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Sixty years after Brown v. Board of Education
Editor’s note: Beverly Daniel Tatum is the president of Spelman College in Atlanta and the author of “Can We Talk About Race?” and “Other Conversations in an Era of School Resegregation.” The opinions expressed in this commentary are solely those of the author.
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Boko Haram and the thrust of radical Islam
“In Nigeria, the extremist group Boko Haram conducted a suicide car-bombing in late August against the UN building in Abuja, marking Boko Haram’s first known lethal operation against Westerners.”