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Corporate Funding of Urban League, NAACP & Civil Rights Orgs Has Turned Into Corporate Leadership | Black Agenda Report

Corporate Funding of Urban League, NAACP & Civil Rights Orgs Has Turned Into Corporate Leadership | Black Agenda Report

Corporate Funding of Urban League, NAACP & Civil Rights Orgs Has Turned Into Corporate Leadership

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A Black Agenda Radio Comentary by BAR managing editor Bruce A. Dixon

How did billionaire Bill Gates, who is heavily involved in the hijacking of Africa's food supply, and the privatization of education here in the US get to be the keynote speaker at the National Urban League's annual meeting in Boston the week before last? The answer is that the Urban League is utterly dependent on the generosity of corporate donors, and Bill Gates is potentially among the biggest.

Corporate Funding of Urban League, NAACP & Civil Rights Orgs Has Turned Into Corporate Leadership

by BAR managing editor Bruce A. Dixon

Not only is Bill Gates a cousin,” gushed academic Henry Louis Gates at the