Our Time Has Come: The Anti-racist Majority Comes of Age

Our Time Has Come

In the print edition...

• The Anti-racist Majority Comes of Age, by Joe Sims
• Harold Washington: The People's Mayor, by Joel Wendland
• Humbled By Magnificence: The Fruits of the African American Experience, by Dee Myles
• ¿La mayoría antirracista alcanza a su mayoridad?, por Joe Sims
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In early July of 2007 the Supreme Court boldly struck down the legal underpinnings of Brown v. the Board of Education. In a five to four decision, the Republican majority on the court, overturned desegregation plans by school districts in Louisville, Kentucky and Seattle, Washington.

The 1980s opened with a huge transformation in American political and social life unseen since the Great Depression. With the election of Reagan there began a shift in ideology and politics to the right and an economic restructuring unparalleled since Franklin Roosevelt.

The language of hope coming from the downtrodden is not simply empty rhetoric but a cognitive stepping stone out of the demobilizing mire of oppression.

A comienzos de julio de 2007 la Suprema Corte de la nación, en una acción atrevida, contravino a los fundamentos legales de Brown v. the Board of Education. En un fallo de cinco a cuatro, la mayoría republicana en la Corte rechazó planes para la desegregación racial de distritos escolares en Louisville, Kentucky y Seattle, Washington.