Donna Brazile: The Black Panther Party started with a study group at Merrick College, which was a community college in West Oakland. Gaining access to education became a site of politicization for those who weren't coming from elite families," says Brazile. "When literacy rates rise, so do supports for left wing movement"
Featuring Donna Murch and Todd Wolfson on Rutgers University workers' industrial unionism strategy. The second in a two-part series on the crisis in American higher education.
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