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Marc Lamont Hill is Associate Professor of Education at Columbia University and host of Our World With Black Enterprise, which airs Sundays at 6 a.m. on TV-One. He is an editor-at-large for the Daily News and his column will appear every other week.
Email Marc Lamont at MLH@marclamonthill.com
Marc Lamont Hill: Many black preachers promote bigotry, hatred and intolerance to same-sex marriage.
LAST WEEK, the Philadelphia School District announced plans to completely overhaul itself and close more than 40 public schools next year. By closing the schools, for what it describes as considerable financial, academic, and safety concerns, the district claims that it will be able to restructure in ways that are more effective and efficient. While not surprising, given our city’s consistent bungling of education reform over the past two decades, this move was nonetheless disturbing for many reasons.
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Women, Romney and dishonesty
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Marc Lamont Hill: Republican Mitt Romney's wife, Ann, doesn't know what it's like to work a 9 -to-5 job.
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Of Trayvon Martin and truth denied
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Marc Lamont Hill: Our country has gone from collective compassion to racial and political tribalism.
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Doing better by the homeless
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Marc Lamont Hill: The outdoors feeding ban was a political move but it has merit. Still, we need to do more.
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Hill: Educators must be ethical
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Marc Lamont Hill: I have witnessed firsthand the stunning levels of test dishonesty in Philly schools.
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For democracy's sake, suffer knuckleheads
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Marc Lamont Hill: While I understand the need for media activism, sometimes we go too far. It's not always simple.
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Make Black History Month a guidepost
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Marc Lamont Hill: "Why isn't there a White History Month?" people often ask me. My answer? They are January, March, April, May, June, July, August, September, October, November and December.
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Why the rich get richer
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Marc Lamont Hill: The wealthy have pump-faked us into passing the tax burden to the middle class.
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GOP hopefuls playing to usual racial divide
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JUST WHEN the Republican primaries couldn't get any more interesting, the candidates upped the ante by approaching the third rail of race.
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Some lessons from 2011
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Marc Lamont Hill: Through our collective refusal to accept the status quo, substantive change was made.
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Free-Mumia work's not done
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Marc Lamont Hill: As a friend and supporter of Mumia Abu-Jamal, I get asked the following questions most often.
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