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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... color and residents of low-income communities have less access and face more barriers to quality health care and treatment than do their better-off and nonminority counterparts. Barriers include a lack of health facilities nearby, the ...
... color and residents of low-income communities have less access and face more barriers to quality health care and treatment than do their better-off and nonminority counterparts. Barriers include a lack of health facilities nearby, the ...
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... color. This is the result of environmental racism: discrimination in environmental lawmaking and law enforcement, and targeting communities of color as sites for toxic-waste disposal and polluting industries. To protect community ...
... color. This is the result of environmental racism: discrimination in environmental lawmaking and law enforcement, and targeting communities of color as sites for toxic-waste disposal and polluting industries. To protect community ...
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... color in public schools increased from 22 percent to 38 percent. The enrollment rates for students of color in the West and South already constitute 47 percent and 45 percent, respectively, of the student population. And what some of us ...
... color in public schools increased from 22 percent to 38 percent. The enrollment rates for students of color in the West and South already constitute 47 percent and 45 percent, respectively, of the student population. And what some of us ...
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... color. Thus, in our multifaceted roles as educators, policy-makers, parents, and community members, it is important that we stimulate high levels of academic achievement for all students, particularly those who have been least well ...
... color. Thus, in our multifaceted roles as educators, policy-makers, parents, and community members, it is important that we stimulate high levels of academic achievement for all students, particularly those who have been least well ...
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... color who now achieve at modest levels or barely survive with minimum performance in many of our schools; and Increasing the nurturance and celebration of developed ability in the group that Du Bois called “the talented tenth” of our ...
... color who now achieve at modest levels or barely survive with minimum performance in many of our schools; and Increasing the nurturance and celebration of developed ability in the group that Du Bois called “the talented tenth” of our ...
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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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