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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... racial profiling, African Americans are arrested at exorbitant, disproportionate rates, thus forcing thousands of them into jails and prisons. Laws such as “Three Strikes” lead to an individual's serving a life sentence if convicted of ...
... racial profiling, African Americans are arrested at exorbitant, disproportionate rates, thus forcing thousands of them into jails and prisons. Laws such as “Three Strikes” lead to an individual's serving a life sentence if convicted of ...
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... Racial bias in our criminal justice system has many causes—historical, political, and economic—but we know that any solution to the growing crisis of mass Black incarceration must begin with focusing on ... racial profiling is nothing new.
... Racial bias in our criminal justice system has many causes—historical, political, and economic—but we know that any solution to the growing crisis of mass Black incarceration must begin with focusing on ... racial profiling is nothing new.
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... racial profiling became more acute. Officers in state highway patrol agencies nationwide were trained to use minor traffic violations as an excuse to pull people over and attempt to search their cars for drugs, based on a racially ...
... racial profiling became more acute. Officers in state highway patrol agencies nationwide were trained to use minor traffic violations as an excuse to pull people over and attempt to search their cars for drugs, based on a racially ...
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Contents
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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