When properly motivated, when exposed to competent and dedicated teachers, and when prepared as the "whole child" in the "whole school" and supported by the "whole community," Black public school students can outperform any group of students, intellectually and academically. This article explains how this remarkable feat was accomplished, twice, in a Kansas school system in the 1940s.

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Charitably speaking, U.S. Senator Tommy Tuberville (R-Alabama) has never been viewed as an intellectual giant. Tommy Tuberville “whores” for Donald Trump and the MAGA faction of the National Republican Party. None of them respect him. They only use Tuberville whenever they need a neophyte "pack-mule" to tote a heavy load of MAGA political baggage.