... so be it.
In addition to the Chicago Annenberg Challenge, the Joyce Foundation, and the Woods Fund of Chicago, they also list three organizations I hadn't hear about before:
* the Center for Neighborhood Technology
* the Chicago Lawyers Committee for Civil Rights Under the Law
* Public Allies.
There's more on the CLCCRUL here; "interesting" cases, including at least one about immigration. On...
... and FactCheck told us that the Chicago Annenberg Challenge ("CAC") - as run by Barack Obama - was only involved in "mainstream" educational projects. Now, it turns out that CAC gave $200,000 to Chicago's Coalition for Improved Education in South Shore ("CIESS"). That ran the South Shore African Village Collaborative ("SSAVC"), which was a network of Afrocentric schools, based on various radical...
... former executive director of the Chicago Annenberg Challenge.
And, for much more, see this response to the article: NYT's Ayers-Obama Whitewash. Regarding Scott Shane letting Ayers claim that he mostly only wanted to do property damage with his bombs, see this.
See also this from Steve Diamond:
an exchange of letters in late 1994, copies of which I obtained from Brown University, between Vartan...
Is Barack Obama a strong proponent of the First Amendment? Does he support free speech, even by those who strongly disagree with him? The answer is: not really.
I'll keep track in reverse chronological order (note, of course, that there are other examples throughout the time period):
* 10/27/08: Student reporters who uncovered voter fraud receive threatening letters from an Obama attorney warning...
... on education matters for the Chicago Annenberg Challenge in the 90s. Some details on this are here and here.
Stanley Kurtz tried to gain access to the voluminous records about the CAC, which are stored, ironically enough, at the Richard J. Daley Library at the University of Illinois at Chicago. He exchanged emails with various staffers there and arranged a flight to review the records, but at...