Marc Morial: “When we look at what is happening in this nation, we see an effort to impose a system of American apartheid.”

We note the attacks on this progress. They come in the form of voter suppression – voter purges, attacks on democracy, attacks on equal opportunity in DE&I, banning of books, attacks to try to thwart this progress.

I'm shocked. I'm repulsed. I see an incident that has no legality, no constitutionality. And those officers do not deserve to carry a badge or a gun again.

Democracy is under vigorous, vicious and sinister attack, beginning with the events of June -- January 6 at the Capitol and cascading like a tsunami through state legislatures across the nation.

How can these short-term resources be used to create the long-term systemic changes necessary to provide all students with equitable access to an excellent education.