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The Covenant with Black America : ten years later / compiled and edited by Tavis Smiley.

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SmileyBooks, distributed by Hay House, 2016.

305.896073 C873

Blacks -- United States -- Social conditions -- 21st century.

Blacks -- United States -- Economic conditions -- 21st century.

Blacks -- United States -- Politics and government -- 21st century.

Blacks -- United States -- Education.

Community activists, Black -- United States -- Anecdotes.

United States -- Race relations -- 21st century.

9781401951498 (pbk.)

140195149X (pbk.)

281 pages ; 23 cm.

Includes bibliographical references.

Introduction / Tavis Smiley -- Statement of purpose / Marian Wright Edelman -- Securing the right to healthcare and well-being -- Establishing a system of public education in which all children achieve at high levels and reach their full potential -- Correcting the system of unequal justice -- Fostering accountable community-centered policing -- Ensuring broad access to affordable neighborhoods that connect to opportunity -- Claiming our democracy -- Strengthening our rural roots -- Accessing good jobs, wealth, and economic prosperity -- Assuring environmental justice for all -- Closing the racial digital divide -- Afterword / Haki R. Madhubuti -- A call to action / Cornel West.

"In 2006, Tavis Smiley teamed up with other leaders in the Black community to create a national plan of action to address the ten most crucial issues facing African Americans. The Covenant with Black America, which became a bestseller, ran the gamut from health care to criminal justice, affordable housing to education, voting rights to racial divides. But a decade later, Black men still fall to police bullets and brutality, Black women still die from preventable diseases, Black children still struggle to get a high quality education, the digital divide and environmental inequality still persist, and American cities from Ferguson to Baltimore burn with frustration. In short, the last decade has seen the evaporation of Black wealth, with Black fellow citizens having lost ground in nearly every leading economic category. So Smiley calls for a renewal of The Covenant, presenting in this new edition the original action plan - with a new foreword and conclusion - alongside fresh data from the Indiana University School of Public & Environmental Affairs (SPEA) to underscore missed opportunities and the work that remains to be done. While life for far too many African Americans remains a struggle, the great freedom fighter Frederick Douglass was right: "If there is no struggle, there is no progress." Tavis Smiley worked during the late 1980s as an aide to Tom Bradley, the mayor of Los Angeles. he is currently the host of the late-night television talk show Tavis Smiley on PBS, as well as The Tavis Smiley Show on Public Radio International (PRI)."--Provided by publisher.

Smiley, Tavis, 1964-

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