Taryn Finley of The Huffington Post is reporting 100 percent of Chicago’s Urban Preparatory Charter School’s senior class is college bound for the seventh consecutive year. Finley reports: “Every senior at the pr...
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“Intellect, whether of civilized or uncivilized humanity, as you know, sir, is elastic in quality. That is, primitive man when transplanted to civilization not only becomes civilized, but sometimes excels some of those whose...
“In our ethnic and racial diversity, we are all brothers and sisters in a quest for greatness. Our creativity and energy are unequalled by any city anywhere in the world.” Harold Lee Washington April 15, 1922: Harold Lee Washingto...
“The miscegenation laws of the South only operate against the legitimate union of the races; they leave the white man free to seduce all the colored girls he can, but it is death to the colored man who yields to the force and adva...
OPINION by Rhonda J. Summey, Ed.D. The strike is over and the battle is done in Chicago. The children will be in school back to the business of learning. But make no mistake—the war is far from over. On the battlefield of public...
