For now, race-based affirmative action in US higher education remains constitutional, as the Supreme Court ruled in June via Fisher v. University of Texas II. Still, one fact remains evident: …
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The Tyranny of the P.C. Police
A few months ago, Wesley Morris, deemed 2015 “The Year We Obsessed Over Identity”. Morris, one of the foremost Black culture critics writing today, argued that last year our culture …
A Rallying Cry for A Second-Chance School: The Fight to Save Chicago State
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The Other Side of the New Jim Crow: Students With Incarcerated Parents
Soaring incarceration rates have left their mark on the Black community, destroying the lives of many Black men and women and weakening neighborhood cohesion and voting power. Many stories of …
Straw Freshmen: Why the War on Campus PC Culture is Bullshit
PC culture. It’s the new evil gripping the millennials of this country, coddling all of our college students so they become unquestioning, reactive drones; social justice warriors who put their …
Phantoms Playing Double-Dutch: Why the Fight for Dyett is Bigger than One Chicago School Closing
“Cause everybody dies in the summer / Wanna say your goodbyes, tell ‘em while it’s spring / I heard everybody’s dying in the summer So pray to God for a …
“It’s Not Even Surprising Anymore”: Middle School Students React to Police Brutality
Editor’s Note: This gallery is a complimentary piece to Clara Green’s article “The True Crime” about the Atlanta Public Schools cheating scandal. Five days after the school year started in Atlanta, …
The True Crime: Atlanta Public Schools after the Cheating Scandal
One day after nine educators were sentenced to prison in the Atlanta Public Schools cheating scandal, standardized testing began across the state of Georgia. I am a graduate of the …