Ronald Reagan is frequently glorified in the mainstream media. Here are the five enduring myths of the Reagan presidency. Myth #1: Reagan was fiscally responsible. Starting with the myth that the USSR was the “Evil Empire,” Reagan unrelentingly drove up military spending to fight an enemy that was, according to intelligence reports, already in decline (partially from …

The Network of Educators on the Americas (now Teaching for Change), the Poverty and Race Research Action Council (PRRAC), and the Howard University History Department co-sponsored Putting the Movement Back Into Civil Rights Teaching, a free one-day institute that took place on October 30, 1999, at Howard University in Washington, D.C., funded in part by grants …