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The Next Civil Rights Battle
Virginia Ford still remembers the fear that gripped her when, as a 14-year-old, she watched the flames shoot from a cross in her front yard.The year was 1964, and her father had just landed a job as one of the first black assistant superintendents in a major public school system in the area.
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Tom Minnery
It May Be Time to Reset Your Political Clock
The times they are a changin’. Or at least they seem to be. To read Candi Cushman’s cover story is to have a new appreciation for that old protest song.Not too many years ago, it would have been inconceivable that African-Americans, once a reliable partner in the liberal political coalition, would be marching against another reliable partner in that coalition — the teachers’ unions. Such is the dramatically rising dissatisfaction with the unions’ stranglehold on public schools, whose dismal performances shortchange minority children.
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