Although the overall unemployment rate still exceeds 7 percent, and the official Black unemployment rate is greater than 13 percent, there are some who insist that there is a robust economic recovery in progress.
Category: Opinion
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Federal contracting promotes inequality
On May 21, I had the opportunity to testify before a Congressional Progressive Caucus meeting on the fact that federal dollars drive inequality by paying contractors who pay too many of their workers very little.
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All the continent moves to achieve a Pan African education
Colonial education in Africa was fundamentally aimed at teaching Africans that Europeans were superior in everything, and that the purpose of African life was to follow whatever Europeans said and go wherever they led. Africans were to stay divided and quarreling among themselves, and the only unity they were to achieve was in their agreement to allow Europeans to do whatever they wanted in Africa and to Africans. Colonial education was aimed at teaching Africans to stay dependent on White outsiders.
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A quest for a Black agenda at the Galen Center
Last Sunday at the Galen Center, a group of collected community groups, USC’s Office of…
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Practical Politics
In case you didn’t get the memo, 2008 is a very serious political year for…
