- Alfonzo Porter
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Alfonzo Porter is a contributor to The Root DC and the author of “More Like Barack, Less Like Tupac: Eradicating the Academic Achievement Gap by Countering Decades of the Hip Hop Hoax.” He is a speaker, consultant, former teacher and school administrator.
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OPINION| While I commend the efforts to put pressure on Mattel, I think our energies as middle class educated African-Americans is better spent forming our own companies to build our own products- not asking a major corporation to do it for us.
Taking MLK’s legacy online: is it enough?
ESSAY| A new generation of civil rights leader has emerged who is well versed, skilled, and comfortable in the manipulation of digital and social media, and who are also thoroughly schooled in the lessons of the past.
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OPINION| Turning the schools over to folks who have never taught in a classroom and somehow expecting the schools will improve seems terribly counterintuitive.
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