Tag: New Visions Commentary

Corrupt Black Leadership and Culture of Failure Impede Black Progress, by La Shawn Barber

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Corrupt Black Leadership and Culture of Failure Impede Black Progress by La Shawn Barber On May 17, 2004, during the NAACP's 50th anniversary celebration of Brown v. Board of Education - the 1954 Supreme Court case that ended government-mandated racial ...
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Stethoscope Socialism, by Deroy Murdock

Stethoscope Socialism, by Deroy Murdock

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A national health-care system may be the Holy Grail of American liberalism. If only the government managed medicine, the argument goes, costs could be restrained, quality assured and access extended from the poshest beach house to the humblest shotgun shack ...
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Bill Cosby Lives in a Glass House and Shouldn’t Throw Stones, by B.B. Robinson, Ph.D.

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Throughout my life, I have always been an eager viewer of the television offerings of Bill Cosby. As a child, I remember rising early on Saturday mornings to watch "Fat Albert and the Cosby Kids" cartoon. As a young adult, ...
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Dirty Campus, Clean Conscience, by Nick Cheolas

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Deep racial fault lines were exposed on the campus of the University of Michigan in September of 2005 after two Asian students claimed that two white students urinated on them as they passed under an apartment balcony. Before an investigation ...
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Uncle Sam Isn’t Really Your Uncle: You are the Family Member Who Has to Tell Your Kids About S-E-X, by Deneen Moore

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The message is alarmingly loud and clear to adolescents: There's nothing wrong with promiscuous sex. Network television and cable programs, movies, song lyrics (along with suggestive music videos), internet research and chat rooms render graphic sexual images and dialogue 24 ...
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NAACP TV Boycott Should Get Poor Reception, by Rose Capozzi

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Founded to secure and protect the "citizenship rights" of black Americans, the NAACP established an honorable reputation fighting Jim Crow laws, championing school desegregation and advocating groundbreaking civil rights legislation. George Washington Carver, Dr. Martin Luther King Jr., Rosa Parks ...
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Charter Schools Give Students the Fighting Chance They Need, by Deneen Moore

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It is common to hear that public schools are failing our children.  Despite this identified and obvious problem, giving parents an alternative - school choice - is fought tooth-and-nail by teachers' unions and other advocates of government-run education.  Scores of ...
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When Equality Plans Yield Unequal Results, by Nick Cheolas

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It's a sad fact that an achievement gap between minority and white students exists.  The real question is what to do about it. For too long, affirmative action - boosting minorities in the college admissions process - has been the ...
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Sanctimonious Elitists Don’t Always Practice As They Preach, by Nick Cheolas

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Most liberals enjoy portraying themselves as the champions of minority interests and "social justice," defending the allegedly defenseless against oppression from the rich and powerful. But does the liberal elite live by its own rhetorical standards? Not according to author ...
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How Hip-Hop Destroys the Potential of Black Youth, by Jeffrey Hicks

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Hip-hop has grown from its inner-city roots to appeal to a diverse and worldwide audience. It is no longer the fad some once considered it. Unfortunately, it is also having a profound negative impact on young blacks. This aspect of ...
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