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Police officers were friends when and where I grew up on Manhattan’s Upper West Side in the Sixties. Continue Reading →
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Mike McQuillan Talks Education On The Danny Tisdale Show (Audio)
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Join Michael McQuillan, teacher as he discusses his article, “What Makes Social Protest Effective? A Unique School Sends Teens Citywide Seeking Answers,“ Rev. Al Sharpton, Dr. Hazel Dukes and others with host Danny Tisdale, on The Danny Tisdale Show.
Op-Ed: What Makes Social Protest Effective? A Unique School Sends Teens Citywide Seeking Answers (Updated)
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By Michael McQuillan
In November 1969 I with classmates at the Bronx High School of Science chipped in for a rickety school bus so we could march against the Vietnam War in Washington. Continue Reading →
Op-Ed: Democracy Abroad, Hypocrisy At Home, Have We Learned Nothing From History?
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Having spent $4.79 trillion for our “War on Terror” in the wake of the September 11th attacks through 2016 according to Brown University’s Watson Institute for International and Public Affairs … Continue Reading →
Op-Ed: A John F. Kennedy Centennial Reflection
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Should it surprise us that John Kennedy came late to civil rights? Continue Reading →
Op-Ed: A Testament Of Faith For Beyond The Election
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By Michael McQuillan
“I woke up this morning to a country – and to a reality – that seems darker than I ever had thought I would witness first hand. Continue Reading →
Op-Ed: What Colin Kaepernick Protest Accomplished
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By Michael McQuillan
Police shootings, school segregation and inner city economic deprivation demand frank talk and hard work across the color line. Continue Reading →
Op-Ed: What A Real Conversation About Race Would Entail
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By Michael McQuillan
In June 1993 the Richmond-based Hope in the Cities conducted a pioneering “Unity Walk” in what was once the Confederate capital and then a source of massive resistance to court-ordered school integration. Continue Reading →
Op-Ed: Democracy Depends On Exchanging Ideas. Do Leaders Listen?
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By Michael McQuillan
“Answer your mail.” Mentors taught this as the first rule of politics when I worked in the U.S. Senate for Missouri’s Stuart Symington in the Seventies. Continue Reading →