John Dewey High School Graduates: Uncensored

One of the great teachers from the 1970s and '80s, Jack Hart, who taught in the English Department, has just passed on.

https://www.cnn.com/2019/03/02/politics/bernie-sanders-personal-brooklyn-speech-2020/index.html

'I know where I came from!': Sanders begins 2020 campaign with personal speech in Brooklyn In the midst of delivering the most personal remarks of his political career at the first major rally of his 2020 campaign, Bernie Sanders veered off the somber script.

http://www.policestateusa.com/2014/librarians-gagged-patriot-act/

Four librarians gagged and threatened with prison time under the Patriot Act - Police State USA WINDSOR, CT -- The FBI demanded that 4 librarians produce private information about patrons' reading habits, gagging them under penalty of prison time.

Can the unlikely alliance of the Black Panthers and a group of transplanted Southern Whites in 1969 hold any lesson today, asks Colette Gaiter.

Chicago 1969: When Black Panthers aligned with Confederate-flag-wielding, working-class whites Could a similar coalition emerge today?

https://www.yahoo.com/news/students-protest-gun-violence-nationwide-slideshow-wp-152914780.html

Students protest gun violence nationwide on Columbine anniversary Thousands of students walked out of classes across the United States on Friday, marking the 19th anniversary of the massacre at Columbine High School with a show of unity aimed at pressuring politicians to enact tighter gun restrictions.

Walk out on April 20th:

#NationalSchoolWalkout The National School Walkout, organized and led by students angered by the inaction seen in Congress, will take place on April 20, 2018—the 19th anniversary of the Columbine Massacre. We've got everything you need to plan a walkout at your school.

New interview with historian James DiEugenio on the government's conspiracy to kill Martin Luther King: Tune in at the 3:45 mark to skip the long Intro:

The Ripple Effect Podcast # 155 (James DiEugenio | The MLK Assassination) James DiEugenio first became interested in history while at film school. Later he studied Contemporary American History from California State University, Nor...

https://ratical.org/ratville/JFK/Unspeakable/ConvMartyrdom.html

James Douglass: The Converging Martyrdom of Malcolm and Martin When Martin Luther King, Jr., was assassinated in the spring of 1968, I was teaching a religion course at the University of Hawaii called “The Theology of Peace.” Several students were moved by King’s death and his resistance to the Vietnam War to burn their draft cards, making them liable to ...

https://www.truthdig.com/articles/schools-brace-national-student-walkout-gun-violence/

Schools Brace for National Student Walkout Over Gun Violence The first large-scale, coordinated demonstration is planned for Wednesday, when organizers of the Women's March have called for a 17-minute walkout, one minute for each of the students and staff members killed in Florida.

Dewey alumnus Ray Suarez.

Journalist Ray Suarez rips Trump’s dedication of golf trophy: Puerto Rico needs water not ‘cups’ Author, journalist and Amherst College visiting professor Ray Suarez all but rolled his eyes at President Donald Trump’s dedication of the President’s Cup golf trophy to the people of Puerto Rico on Sunday, saying on MSNBC that the people of Puerto Rico only need cups if they’re “filled with fresh,…

Black and white Americans will join together to put an end to police brutality:

Michael Bennett sits, Martellus Bennett raises fist during Seahawks-Packers national anthem Michael and Martellus Bennett both made clear political statements during their season-opening reunion game between the Seattle Seahawks and Green Bay Packers.