Category: Project 21 New Visions

Do Standardized Tests Add Up? by LisaRose Blanchette

Do Standardized Tests Add Up? by LisaRose Blanchette

New Visions Commentary /
As a teacher preparing to enter my 11th year at the front of the classroom, I feel the need to comment about the weight placed on standardized test scores. It's not about improving the students. Instead, it is all about ...
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Marion Barry: Last of the Black Emperors, by Kimberley Wilson

Marion Barry: Last of the Black Emperors, by Kimberley Wilson

New Visions Commentary /
On May 21, 1998, Marion Barry announced to the world that he would not be a candidate for a fifth term as mayor of Washington, D.C. I hardly know whether to laugh or cry. Marion and the city of Washington ...
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Morality Over Money, by Mike Ramey

Morality Over Money, by Mike Ramey

New Visions Commentary /
I recently saw a very interesting and funny video entitled "Afros and Bellbottoms." It featured the well-known African-American comic and television talk show host Sinbad. I'll admit I was a bit skeptical. With many comics making fortunes by tossing around ...
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He's Got More than Game. He's Got Perspective, by B.B. Robinson

He’s Got More than Game. He’s Got Perspective, by B.B. Robinson

New Visions Commentary /
Spike Lee has done the right thing again! His new movie "He Got Game" touches almost every nerve and fiber of the African-American contemporary experience. More importantly, Lee provides a valid metaphorical perspective on that experience. If you want a ...
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James Earl Ray is Survived by a Family of Troubling Questions, by Deroy Murdock

James Earl Ray is Survived by a Family of Troubling Questions, by Deroy Murdock

New Visions Commentary /
Dead men tell no tales, but the questions they inspire can be immortal. This is true for James Earl Ray, Dr. Martin Luther King's convicted assassin who died in prison April 23 of liver failure at age 70. Alive and ...
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Working in a White Man's World, by Kimberley Wilson

Working in a White Man’s World, by Kimberley Wilson

New Visions Commentary /
For many people, The Black Man's Guide to Working in a White Man's World is going to be hard to read. This is not because it is a dry, scholarly tome, but because it will make quite a few readers ...
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Lower the Lifeboats, Now! Public Schools are Sinking, by Phyllis Berry Myers

Lower the Lifeboats, Now! Public Schools are Sinking, by Phyllis Berry Myers

New Visions Commentary /
Inner-city public schools are like a sinking ship, and the children on board need to be rescued before it's too late. Their schools are sinking fast and educational opportunities are being lost. Roofs leak. Boilers are busted. Science and computer ...
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Slap in the Face of the Reverend Floyd Flake, by Jackie Cissell

Slap in the Face of the Reverend Floyd Flake, by Jackie Cissell

New Visions Commentary /
Former Democratic congressman Floyd Flake of New York was recently uninvited to the Indiana Black Legislative Caucus Prayer Breakfast. Now, if anyone should be welcome at the Indiana Black Legislative Caucus Prayer Breakfast, it should be Floyd Flake. Rev. Flake ...
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Black History Month: Why February? by C. Mason Weaver

Black History Month: Why February? by C. Mason Weaver

New Visions Commentary /
This is Black History Month. I wonder who picked the coldest, wettest, shortest month of the year to remember the history of African people and their descendants in America? How did we come to have Black History Month in February? ...
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Recollections of Racial Identity, by Jackie Cissell

Recollections of Racial Identity, by Jackie Cissell

New Visions Commentary /
I recently completed a sociology class in which we covered a section on how communities are identified by race, class and other factors. During the class, we discussed our earliest recollection of racial identity, and the benefits and struggles associated ...
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