The Covenant with Black America - Ten Years LaterIn 2006, Tavis Smiley—along with a team of esteemed contributors—laid out a national plan of action to address the ten most crucial issues facing African Americans.The Covenant, which became a #1 New York Times bestseller, ran the gamut from health care to criminal justice, affordable housing to education, voting rights to racial divides. But a decade later, Black men still fall to police bullets and brutality, Black women still die from preventable diseases, Black children still struggle to get a high quality education, the digital divide and environmental inequality persist, and American cities from Ferguson to Baltimore burn with frustration. In short, the last decade has seen the evaporation of Black wealth, with Black fellow citizens having lost ground in nearly every leading economic category. And so in these pages Smiley calls for a renewal of The Covenant, presenting the original action plan alongside new data from the Indiana University School of Public & Environmental Affairs (SPEA) to underscore missed opportunities and the work that remains to be done. While life for far too many African Americans remains a struggle, the great freedom fighter Frederick Douglass was right: "If there is no struggle, there is no progress." Now is the time to finally convert the trials and tribulations of Black America into the progress that all of America yearns for. |
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... civil and human rights of Black people has outraged citizens of conscience, and led to a renewed sense of social protest and political activism. Led primarily by a younger generation that has, ironically, been let down by our failure to ...
... civil and human rights of Black people has outraged citizens of conscience, and led to a renewed sense of social protest and political activism. Led primarily by a younger generation that has, ironically, been let down by our failure to ...
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... right to attend schools, but for many Blacks, a quality education is almost as difficult to obtain as it was more than ... civil rights movement started the organization in an inner-city neighborhood of Norfolk, Virginia. With the skills ...
... right to attend schools, but for many Blacks, a quality education is almost as difficult to obtain as it was more than ... civil rights movement started the organization in an inner-city neighborhood of Norfolk, Virginia. With the skills ...
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... civil rights movement by the Student Nonviolent Coordinating Committee and the Council of Federated Organizations. The Mississippi Freedom Summer Project of 1964 strived to “motivate young people to become critically engaged in their ...
... civil rights movement by the Student Nonviolent Coordinating Committee and the Council of Federated Organizations. The Mississippi Freedom Summer Project of 1964 strived to “motivate young people to become critically engaged in their ...
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... civil rights issue in education: the disproportionate exposure of students of color—and Black students in particular—to exclusionary disciplinary actions such as suspensions and expulsions. In 2014, only 5 percent of white K–12 students ...
... civil rights issue in education: the disproportionate exposure of students of color—and Black students in particular—to exclusionary disciplinary actions such as suspensions and expulsions. In 2014, only 5 percent of white K–12 students ...
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... civil law as a result of a criminal conviction, including a conviction ... rights and jury participation. While some restrictions reflect legitimate ... citizens, or one in 13 Black adults nationally, from voting27—increase the risk of ...
... civil law as a result of a criminal conviction, including a conviction ... rights and jury participation. While some restrictions reflect legitimate ... citizens, or one in 13 Black adults nationally, from voting27—increase the risk of ...
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Ensuring Broad Access to Affordable | |
Strengthening Our Rural Roots | |
by Michael McGuire Ph D | |
Assuring Environmental Justice for | |
Closing the Racial Digital Divide | |
Cornel West | |
Claiming Our Democracy | |
Acknowledgments | |
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