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The National Association for the Education of Young Children (NAEYC) is a left-of-center early education advocacy and grantmaking organization influenced by critical race theory with approximately 60,000 members and 52 nationwide affiliates. 1
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The Western Center on Law and Poverty (Western Center) is a Los Angeles-based left-of-center and critical race theory-inspired 1 public interest law firm and advocacy
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Alvin Starks is the strategic initiatives director for the NAACP and the director of the Open Society-U.S. Equality team at the Open Society Institute (OSI) of George Soros’s Open Society Foundations (OSF). In 2021, he coauthored an op-ed with Democracy Alliance head Pamela Shifman
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Robert Smith is a billionaire American businessman, financier, and philanthropist who amassed his fortune as the founder and CEO of Vista Equity Partners. As of April 2021, Smith was the wealthiest Black American, with a net worth of $6 billion.
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Fund II Foundation is the grantmaking foundation associated with Robert F. Smith, the billionaire founder and CEO of Vista Equity Partners who has become the wealthiest African American in the country. The foundation’s mandate is to fund organizations that preserve African-American culture, combat human rights violations, promote outdoor education,
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Walter E. Hussman, Jr. is the publisher of the Arkansas Democrat-Gazette and was chairman of WEHCO Media, a privately owned communications company that owns 10 daily newspapers, including the Democrat-Gazette and the Chattanooga (Tennessee) Times-Free Press, seven weekly newspapers, and seven cable TV systems, from 1981 until 2016.
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Teachers unions, like other government-employee unions, are a key player in the left-of-center infrastructure. The national teachers unions — National Education Association (NEA) and American Federation of Teachers (AFT) — are among the largest organizational political players
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The Center for Michigan is a public policy nonprofit that operates two news sites: Bridge Michigan, which covers the state, and BridgeDetroit, which focuses on Detroit. Media Bias/Fact Check has rated Bridge Michigan as having a “left-center bias,” which includes taking editorial positions that favor left-of-center perspectives.
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Bishop M. Garrison, Jr. was the senior advisor to the Secretary of the U.S. Department of Defense (DOD) on human capital, diversity, equity, and inclusion until 2022. 1 Prior to joining the
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Miguel Cardona is a longtime educator and the Secretary of Education in the Biden administration. Prior to becoming Secretary of Education, Secretary Cardona worked as an educator in Connecticut and as the state Education Commissioner. During his time as Education Commissioner, Secretary Cardona oversaw the implementation of a statewide
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Ibram X. Kendi is a professor, activist, and author most known for pioneering the radical-left ideology of “antiracism,” which claims that any racial inequalities are inherently the result of racist policies. Kendi has argued that there is no such thing as being “non-racist,” and that in order to avoid being
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Neil Brown is a left-leaning journalist. Among other journalistic jobs, he has worked as the former editor of the Tampa Bay Times and as president of the Poynter Institute for Media Studies, and sits as a member of the Pulitzer Prize board. Early Career Brown began his journalism career
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Nikole Hannah-Jones is a staff writer for the New York Times Magazine who in 2019 created and directed of the magazine’s “1619 Project.” Her lead essay for the 100-page journalistic endeavor asserts the central event in the founding of the United States was the first importation of enslaved
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The Pulitzer Center On Crisis Reporting is a left-of-center group that provides support for journalism and makes stories available to media outlets. In addition, it also works to incorporate journalism and stories into school and university classroom curriculum. It is not affiliated with Columbia University’s Pulitzer Prizes. The center developed
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David J. Quolke is an Ohio-based former teachers union official1 and Democratic Party organizer.
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Young Invincibles (YI) is a left-of-center youth advocacy, research, grantmaking, and lobbying organization based in Washington, D.C. 1 Co-founded in 2009 by Ari Matsuiak, a special assistant to the President during
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Partners in Health (PIH) is a philanthropic charity which provides health care services, training, and systems management to low-income communities in the United States and around the world. Though Partners in Health is dedicated to a nonpartisan philanthropic goal, the organization bases its work on modern left-wing philosophies, particularly social
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The New York Times (NYT or Times) is a newspaper and digital media brand published by The New York Times Company. Founded in 1851, the Times has long been one of the most prestigious and highest-profile newspapers in the world.
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Harvard University is one of the oldest, most prestigious, and most powerful universities in the world. Founded in 1636, the university maintains a $40.9 billion academic endowment, the largest in the world, as of April 2021.
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The ACLU of Iowa, formerly known as Iowa Civil Liberties Union, is the Iowa affiliate of the left-leaning American Civil Liberties Union (ACLU). Though nominally nonpartisan, the ACLU of Iowa has historically supported left-leaning demographic and special interest groups such as communists, labor unions, LGBT people, and anti-war and
