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Akil Vicks

Massachusetts
As seen in: On One Substack, MSN, Substack, The Wire (India), Jacobin, In These Times, Reader Supported News, Portside, ZNetwork, Progressive Hub
Bear Dad and Proprietor of onone.substack.com. Occasionally writes for @Jacobin. Your friendly neighborhood Black leftist.
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By Akil Vicks
| On One Substack
On January 30th, 2000, the St. Louis Rams played the Tennessee Titans at the Georgia Dome in Atlanta for Super Bowl XXXIV. The narratives for this game were immaculate. The Rams entered the season expected to be one of the worst teams in the league, mired at the bottom of the standings for the past 5 years, their starting quarterback suffering a season-ending injury in the preseason. Head coach Dick Vermeil turned to their undrafted backup, a former Arena (indoor) Football player named Kurt Warner.
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On Scam Country: Part One

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By Akil Vicks
| On One Substack
Despite what you may have seen on your aunt’s Facebook page, Jimmy Carter did not sell his peanut farm before beginning his term as president to avoid the appearance of impropriety. He actually put his family business in a blind trust. Blind trusts are the sort of thing society invents when it knows its version of democracy is just an oligarchy with an org chart. But Carter played fair and square; he truly gave up control of his company to an independent third party.
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OnOne Elsewords: The EdTech Backlash Is Here, and It's Just Getting Started

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By Akil Vicks, Nora De La Cour
| On One Substack
Hello Friends, This week OnOne education correspondent Nora De La Cour is back in Jacobin to talk about dystopian landscape of ed-tech. Just when you thought it wasn’t possible for Silicon Valley to be more dumb and evil than it already is…. Nora writes: When nine-year-old Sunny entered second grade at his Los Angeles public school three years ago, a surprise awaited him: a personal Google Chromebook to use in his classes and take home each afternoon.
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