May
10
Camden’s Public Schools’ Own Tuskegee Experiment
So what does the Tuskegee Experiment have to do with the Camden City School District in 2025?…
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Jan
22
Our Nation’s Allegiance to Racism Returned Us to a Nightmare we Thought Was Behind Us
The content discusses the link between white American voting patterns and underlying racism. It argues that many white voters support Trump, citing economic concerns, yet consistently reject candidates advocating universal opportunities. The piece criticizes society’s failure to confront racism and highlights that such denial contributes to Trump’s political resurgence and detrimental policies.
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Jul
03
Peep Game: Black Educators and the Attack on Urban Teacher Unions (Pt. 4…the finale)
continued from Part III… Groups like these (above) invest, meaning put up money, to make money by propping up corporate charter schools, and dismantling specifically public schools with majority students and teachers of color in the process. These investment firms, started by the rich (and white), are quite literally making Continue Reading…
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Jun
29
Peep Game: Black Educators and the Attack on Urban Teacher Unions (Pt. 3)
And in folks ignoring that economic situatedness, more than anything, influences students’ academic outcomes and economic opportunity, again, absolves government and politicians of their responsibility to fix economic inequality.
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Jun
26
Peep Game: Black Educators and the Attack on Urban Teacher Unions (Pt. 2)
Black folks have always had to contend with the systemic injustices of capitalism, while we simultaneously have to deal with centuries of injustice due to racism and racial exploitation. That dual experience is real, distinct, and unique.
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Jun
23
Peep Game: Black Educators and the Attack on Urban Teacher Unions (Pt. 1)
We have to be cognizant about our nation’s economic reality, and beneficiaries of the radical redistribution of wealth UPWARD, in order to understand where and how the modern attack on specifically urban teacher unions and urban education fits.
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Jun
19
We are dealing with an exceedingly tenuous moment in American history | Opinion
We are dealing with an exceedingly tenuous moment in American history and looking away from reality will not save us any more than insufficient solutions will. The late Barbara Ehrenreich commented, “delusion is no way to confront reality.”
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Jun
16
Why Political and Economic Help for the Poor and Working Class Remains Elusive (civics 103)
Picking up where we left off, and digging deeper on the substance of civics and politics, here, we delve into why achieving change is so difficult, particularly for constituencies that are poor, working-class, Black and Latino — even when elected leadership is Democratic or Black and Democratic.
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Jun
16
Be Wary of Platformed Voices Claiming to Know Politics — Despite Repeatedly Showing Otherwise (civics 102)
…And no more than 48 hours after posting that entry, I scrolled on my Twitter timeline (@keithericbenson) to find that Luther Luke Campbell (@uncleluke) would be hosting a Twitter Spaces entitled, “Years of supporting the democratic party, why Black still in poverty” where it appeared 77 people were committed to participating or, at the very least, listening. Here we go…
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Jun
16
Folks, Be Wary of Platformed Voices Claiming to Know Politics— Despite Repeatedly Proving Otherwise (civics 101)
Where there has been a decades-long fragmenting of subjects like social studies and civics, with the democratized social media space we have now, information-hungry people who want answers and explanations for matters pertaining to government are going to search for them, and find some semblance of both; whether the information is accurate or not matters little as accessibility and one’s ability to discern fact, from nonsense is increasingly a coin-toss.
