The Covenant with Black America - ten years later /
compiled and edited by Tavis Smiley.
- First edition.
- xii, 281 pages : illustrations ; 23 cm
Includes bibliographical references.
Introduction / Statement of purpose / Securing the right to healthcare and well-being / Ten years later / Establishing a system of public education in which all children achieve at high levels and reach their full potential / Ten years later / Correcting the system of unequal justice / Ten years later / Fostering accountable community-centered policing / Ten years later / -- Ensuring broad access to affordable neighborhoods that connect to opportunity / Ten years later / Claiming our democracy / Ten years later / Strengthening our rural roots / Ten years later / Accessing good jobs, wealth, and economic prosperity / Ten years later / Assuring environmental justice for all / Ten years later / Closing the racial digital divide / Ten years later / A call to action / Tavis Smiley -- Marian Wright Edelman -- David M. Satcher ; Kosali Simon, Angshuman Gooptu, Seth Freedman, Victoria Perez -- Edmund W. Gordon ; Ashlyn Aiko Nelson, Bee Smale -- James Bell ; Beth Cate, Andrea Need -- Maya Harris ; Jeremy G. Carter -- Angela Glover Blackwell ; Michael McGuire -- Wade Henderson ; Lisa Blomgren Amsler -- Oleta Garrett Fitzgerald, Sarah Bobrow-Williams ; Michael McGuire -- Marc H. Morial ; David Audretsch -- Robert D. Bullard ; Kenneth R. Richard -- Tyrone D. Taborn ; Michael McGuire-- 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 #1 New York Times 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.' With Smiley leading the charge, the time has come to finally convert the trials and tribulations of Black America into the progress that all of America yearns for"--Publisher description.
9781401951498 140195149X
2015042597
Since 1975
African Americans--Social conditions--1975-
African Americans--Politics and government.
African American leadership.
United States--Race relations.
E185.86 / .C58883 2016
305.896073 Cov 9
Includes bibliographical references.
Introduction / Statement of purpose / Securing the right to healthcare and well-being / Ten years later / Establishing a system of public education in which all children achieve at high levels and reach their full potential / Ten years later / Correcting the system of unequal justice / Ten years later / Fostering accountable community-centered policing / Ten years later / -- Ensuring broad access to affordable neighborhoods that connect to opportunity / Ten years later / Claiming our democracy / Ten years later / Strengthening our rural roots / Ten years later / Accessing good jobs, wealth, and economic prosperity / Ten years later / Assuring environmental justice for all / Ten years later / Closing the racial digital divide / Ten years later / A call to action / Tavis Smiley -- Marian Wright Edelman -- David M. Satcher ; Kosali Simon, Angshuman Gooptu, Seth Freedman, Victoria Perez -- Edmund W. Gordon ; Ashlyn Aiko Nelson, Bee Smale -- James Bell ; Beth Cate, Andrea Need -- Maya Harris ; Jeremy G. Carter -- Angela Glover Blackwell ; Michael McGuire -- Wade Henderson ; Lisa Blomgren Amsler -- Oleta Garrett Fitzgerald, Sarah Bobrow-Williams ; Michael McGuire -- Marc H. Morial ; David Audretsch -- Robert D. Bullard ; Kenneth R. Richard -- Tyrone D. Taborn ; Michael McGuire-- 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 #1 New York Times 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.' With Smiley leading the charge, the time has come to finally convert the trials and tribulations of Black America into the progress that all of America yearns for"--Publisher description.
9781401951498 140195149X
2015042597
Since 1975
African Americans--Social conditions--1975-
African Americans--Politics and government.
African American leadership.
United States--Race relations.
E185.86 / .C58883 2016
305.896073 Cov 9