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The Public Eye, Summer 2010

Rachel Tabachnick reviews how the Christian Right works to spread fundamentalist ideology through public school textbooks and Kathryn Joyce deconstructs the myth that abortion is "black genocide."

In this issue

From Schoolhouse to Statehouse

Curriculum from a Christian Nationalist Worldview
An empty school hallway

On May 21, Texas School Board member Cynthia Dunbar opened the board’s meeting with an invocation: “Whether we look to the first charter of Virginia, or the charter of New England, or the charter of Massachusetts Bay, or the Fundamental Orders of…

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Basta Dobbs!

An Interview with Roberto Lovato
A man in a blue suit, speaking.

Last year, a coalition of Latino/a groups successfully fought to remove anti-immigrant pundit Lou Dobbs from CNN. Political Research Associates Executive Director Tarso Luís Ramos spoke to Presente.org co-founder Roberto Lovato to find out how they…

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Abortion as "Black Genocide"

An Old Scare Tactic Re-Emerges
Three Black women wearing winter clothes holding signs that say "we march for Women's Health"

This February, a highly provocative series of 65 billboards went up around Atlanta, which featured an African American infant and the proclamation, “Black Children Are an Endangered Species.” The signs directed viewers to a website, TooManyAborted.…

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