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The largest major grouping in the closed-end fund (CEF) universe is the municipal or tax-free bond investment objective. The group has 220 of the total 600 U.S. listed funds (36.7%) or $89.4 billion of the total $261.3 billion (34.2%) assets held by all closed-end funds. There are 103 national muni funds and 117 state specific muni funds for investors to choose. All data unless otherwise noted is from our weekly CEF Universe data service dated November 30, 2012.
While discounts in the municipal sector have been hard to come by recently, we feel the benefits of closed-end funds, the fixed capital for the investment portfolio and the use of cheap leverage, currently make municipal CEFs more attractive for many investors than the open-end, exchange-traded and individual bond holdings options in terms of both dividend yield and total return performance.
It should be noted that due to the effects of both leverage and market liquidity, investors should expect more volatility in a CEF than other investment options. One way for investors to use this to their benefit is by utilizing limit orders and to take patience and diligence entering and selecting points to purchase or sell shares in a CEF. If readers are not familiar with our firm's data points, there is a link to our data definitions page at the end of the article.
In the past year, the average CEF discount for national municipal bond funds has traded between -4% and +2% to net asset value (NAV). Though trading above NAV has been normal for many funds during the past year, the average forward indicated yield for these funds has slowed due to strong performance of the underlying bond portfolios, with the average national municipal bond CEF up almost +18% year-to-date on a total return basis through November 30, 2012. Because municipal funds have done so well for the past few years, we believe investors need to be very cautious about monitoring the fundamental data for their holdings to anticipate dividend changes as well as fluctuations to the fund's NAV performance when interest rates eventually rise.
Swapping similar funds regularly can help increase the investment allocation's performance over time, though this cannot be guaranteed. One way to do this is to sell a municipal bond fund if it trades above the peer group average discount/premium and to buy a peer fund if it trades below the peer group average disc/prm. This strategy works as long as both the NAV and the dividend rate of the replacement fund do as well as those of the original fund. Also, funds more likely to increase vs. cut a dividend can help an investor's income grow over time and potentially hedge against inflation.
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One concern we have is that the typical municipal CEF has a declining trend in the UNII balance over the past year. We not only track the current amount of UNII in cents per share on the fund's balance sheet, but also the previously announced UNII figures, so that we can determine a trend.
We use 90-day correlation data to help identify how much a fund's recent price movement is due to the NAV movement vs. how much of it is due to investor's perceptions on the fund's future value or dividend levels.
Research Screening Premise:
In making the two lists of funds below, we reviewed the following data in order to try to identify the funds most likely to experience a dividend increase or decrease in the near future: undistributed net investment income (UNII), relative UNII, UNII trend, earnings coverage, earnings trend, having UNII/earnings data updated at least since 9/30/12, as well as having at least one year since the fund last announced a dividend change. We also screened for funds with liquidity above $500K a day to increase the likelihood that they were CEFs that investors might hold or could potentially purchase without moving the market price too aggressively.
Note: The funds above have a positive relative UNII cushion, however, we are concerned with these funds because the earning coverage is well below the dividend policy and they have both a UNII and earnings trend that is negative.
Predictive Data for Dividend Changes
CEFA is currently working on a research project to confirm the predictive value of UNII and earnings information for future dividend cuts and increases. While we expect it to take a few more months to have conclusive data for all CEF groups and all data, one data point is currently looking very promising.
Between September and November 2012, of the 15 dividend cuts for municipal bond funds where we have a UNII trend available, 100% had a negative UNII trend. We hope this gives investors reason to review the financial statements for their CEF holdings.
CEFA's Municipal Bond CEF Tips:
- Try to buy municipal CEFs that meet the following criteria:
- Lower than peer group average discount or premium
- Updated its UNII and Earnings data in the last 90 days
- Positive Earnings & UNII Trend
- Earnings Coverage over 100%
- NAV Performance above Peer Average
- Duration, Credit Quality and AMT% Exposure that meet your investment objectives
- Enough liquidity to meet your trading expectations
CEFA's Data Definitions - pdf
Disclosure: I am long MUA. I wrote this article myself, and it expresses my own opinions. I am not receiving compensation for it. I have no business relationship with any company whose stock is mentioned in this article.
Additional disclosure: Disclosures: CEFA has client positions in MUA as of the writing of this issue. The information and statistical data contained herein have been obtained from sources that Closed-End Fund Advisors (CEFA) believes are reliable, but CEFA makes no representation or warranty as to the accuracy or completeness of any such information or data and expressly disclaims any and all liability relating to or resulting from your use of these materials. The information and data contained herein are current only as of the date(s) indicated, and CEFA has no intention, obligation, or duty to update these materials after such date(s). These materials do not constitute an offer to sell or the solicitation of an offer to buy any securities. CEFA may make decisions for its clients in certain of these securities. CEFA and/or their respective officers, employees, and affiliates may at any time hold positions in any of these securities and may from time-to-time purchase or sell such securities.


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Tackling Racial Bias Requires Multi-layered Solutions
This blog post was authored by Summer 2015 Home Opportunity Intern, Alexander Adames.
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Baltimore - So Much More than The Wire
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We all want and deserve to live in diverse, thriving communities in which our opportunities are not circumscribed by our zip code. "About a quarter of Baltimore residents live below the poverty line. The unemployment rate in zip code 21217, where the riots broke out on Monday, was 19.1% in 2011." The unemployment rate in Roland Park, a suburban area of Baltimore, was 5.2%. Communities built on values of equality and opportunity would be the realization of the American Dream in which we all believe.
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Background on Disparate Impact
In Texas Dept. of Housing and Community Affairs v. The Inclusive Communities Project, the state of Texas challenged the longstanding principle that the Fair Housing Act prohibits both intentional discrimination and unjustified policies that discriminate in practice. The latter principle, known in the law as "disparate impact," has been crucial in knocking down arbitrary barriers to fair housing based on race, national origin, religion, gender, familial status, and disability.
|Apr 17 2015
Resources for Talking about Policing and Racial Justice
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We're proud to partner with Sankofa.org in support of Usher's new song and interactive video experience "Chains," a powerful statement on racial injustice and the violence affecting African Americans.
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Supreme Court Argument Reaffirms the Case for Disparate Impact
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|Jan 29 2015
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Narrative & Messaging & Ferguson
This blog post was submitted by Cleo Stern, Fall 2014 Home Opportunity Intern.
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|Dec 3 2014
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The Voice & Vision of Maya Angelou
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From Angie Zapata to Laverne Cox
Sitting in a cab on my way to the airport, after facilitating a full-day communications workshop in Mississippi, I flipped through a magazine mindlessly. Suddenly an advertising insert from a department store caught my eye. It was Barneys' campaign featuring exclusively transgender models, Brothers, Sisters, Sons & Daughters. My thoughts immediately flashed back to 2009 when I was working at GLAAD and was focused on increasing Spanish language media coverage on Angie Zapata's story. Angie was an 18-year-old from Colorado who was beaten to death with a fire extinguisher after her date found out she had been assigned a male identity at birth. The case drew national attention as one of the first in which a hate crime law was applied in a murder trial where the victim was transgender.
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An Opportunity Century? Election 2012, Social Justice, and America
As the election results sink in, partisans are busy debating what 2012 voting patterns mean for Republican and Democratic prospects in the next election cycle. But what lessons do this year's results hold for those of us who are committed to expanding opportunity and protecting human rights in ways that transcend party and outlast individual elections or candidates? The lessons are plenty, including some that defy the conventional wisdom.
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ProPublica Series: Living Apart: How the Government Betrayed a Landmark Civil Rights Law
By Nikole Hannah-Jones
The original article can be found here.
A few months after Congress passed a landmark law directing the federal government to dismantle segregation in the nation's housing, President Nixon's housing chief began plotting a stealth campaign.
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|Oct 29 2012
Public Opinion and Media Research Briefing
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Public Opinion Monthly (March 2012)
Public Opinion Monthly: Equal Opportunity and the Role of Government
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Honoring Justice
On March 1st, I had the honor of speaking at the memorial service for civil rights hero and respected jurist Judge Robert L. Carter. These were my reflections:
I had the privilege of serving as Judge Carter's Law Clerk in 1989. But years before that, I was sure that I wanted to know this man, and to be known by him.
|Mar 7 2012
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Honoring Judge Robert L. Carter
On January 3rd, America lost one of the greatest champions of equal opportunity and human rights that our nation has ever known. Judge Robert L. Carter, civil rights lawyer, jurist, and fierce defender of justice, passed away at age 94 after suffering a stroke.
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Immigration Blog Round Up, November 7
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Our Modern Family
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The show depicts three inter-connected families who reflect a rich, 21st century American reality: a gay couple with an adopted Asian-American daughter, a spring/autumn marriage between a Colombian immigrant with a son and her much older Anglo husband, and a white heterosexual couple with three very different kids. Part of the brilliance of the situation, of course, is that they are really just one family; the older husband is the grandfather of the Asian-American daughter, the step-father of the Latino son, and so on.
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September 11, 2011
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When Social Media and Cause Engagement for Minorities Come Together
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|Sep 7 2011
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Social Media, Opportunity, and Time 100
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Most recently, Time magazine revealed yet another list of the world's most influential people in the world, and this time Wael Ghonim, a Google executive from Egypt, is at the helm of this selected group thanks to his active participation during the revolts against the Hosni Mubarak regime by way of social media tools—primarily Facebook. What's more, Facebook founder Mark Zuckerberg made the cut for this list (his second mention in a row on this publication after being selected "Person of the Year" in 2010). Finally, Google's CEO Larry Page was also included.
|Apr 28 2011
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Bi-Weekly Public Opinion Round Up - Reproductive Rights
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Women's Reproductive Rights Under Attack Yet Again
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|Apr 21 2011
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Bi-Weekly Public Opinion Round Up - Marriage Equality
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|Mar 1 2011
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Reforming U.S. Housing Finance Policy to Work for People of Color
On February 16, 2011, a group of economists, housing advocates, and civil-rights organizations met in Washington, D.C. to discuss the future and reform of government-sponsored enterprises, or GSEs. The forum was hosted by the National Council of La Raza (NCLR) and partners; the National Fair Housing Alliance, The Opportunity Agenda, and the Center for Responsible Lending.
|Feb 25 2011
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Americans for Constitutional Citizenship
Congratulations! You're expecting a baby. There are a million things to do, from getting the nursery in order to buying a car seat and finding a pediatrician. Also, start documenting your family tree. Dig up your passport, and your parents' passports, and maybe their parents' too. Otherwise, your baby might not be a full American with full rights and responsibilities. Seriously, if a group of politicians and political operatives have their way.
|Jan 10 2011
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Defending our Constitution
This morning, The Opportunity Agenda joined with a coalition of civil and human rights organizations to announce the formation of Americans for Constitutional Citizenship, a diverse alliance dedicated to preserving the constitutional guarantee of American citizenship to every person born in the United States.
|Jan 5 2011
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Those Other Pat-Downs
A "choice" between an ultra-revealing body scan, a scandalously intrusive pat-down, or not traveling by air, ever, is no choice at all. And for those of us who travel internationally, the frustration is compounded by the knowledge that other countries use less invasive and, often, smarter approaches.
|Nov 29 2010
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Holding Arpaio Accountable
Maricopa County, Arizona Sheriff Joe Arpaio is known for housing inmates in tent cities in the desert and making them wear pink clothes as humiliation, but also for allegations of racial profiling and abusive treatment of Latinos, inside and outside of his jailhouse.
|Sep 7 2010
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Repealing the 14th Amendment is Wrong for America
For well over a century, children born on American soil have been American citizens. Changing that guarantee is not a new idea, but Arizona Senator Jon Kyl's proposed hearings on the subject have given it new life. A close look at the history and purpose of the citizenship provision makes clear why changing it would harm us all.
|Aug 10 2010
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Spotlight on the U.S.-Mexico Border
While we're spending our federal funds on policies that threaten both human rights at the border and judicial and prosecutorial safeguards, is there room for us to reaffirm our commitment to human dignity and due process?
|May 26 2010
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Dr. Rand Paul or: How I Learned To Fear the Tea Party
When Rand Paul won a primary last Tuesday, becoming Kentucky's Republican nominee for the Senate, he declared himself a national leader of the Tea Party movement. It was an important moment for the movement as it, coming on the heels of the election of Scott Brown to the Senate, served as another step in its potential transformation from a loosely confederated group of grassroots groups into national level political force. But, as Dr. Paul's attacks on the Civil Rights Act of 1964 just two days later highlighted, the true implications of the movement's ideology are chilling to say the least.
|May 25 2010
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A Government that Reflects America's Values
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|Mar 5 2010
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Power of the Pen
On February 18, President Obama issued an executive order creating a bipartisan commission on addressing the budget deficit. Whatever one thinks of the commission's mission or likely recommendations, the order should represent a rediscovery of the power of the presidency.
|Feb 22 2010
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Long Overdue
In last week's State of the Union Address, President Obama took a pivotal step towards repealing the "Don't Ask, Don't Tell" policy. Approximately 16 years later, this repeal is far overdue.
|Feb 4 2010
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High-Stakes of Stupak-Pitts Amendment for Women of Color
A few Saturdays ago, on November 7th, I was at the annual SisterSong meeting, a gathering of about 300 reproductive justice advocates. What was exhilarating and unusual about this meeting was that the vast majority of people attending were women of color who are focused on gender and sexuality issues. This was a fantastic event that showcased and harnessed the power of women of color, a group often portrayed as politically and socially marginalized.
|Nov 24 2009
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Racial Segregation in U.S. Schools: Illinois Terminates Chicago's Desegregation Decree
All people should have the opportunity to succeed in life, regardless of their race. But a recent Illinois district court decision jeopardizes that possibility.
|Nov 23 2009
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A Voice in Society
A truly functional democracy depends on the ability of everyone to have a voice—a chance to contribute their views and perspectives, and to have them heard and respected.
That everyone be able to participate in public debate, in decisions that affect us, and to be part of the social and cultural life of that nation is essential to our ability to achieve our full potential, as individuals and together.
|Jun 26 2009
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Real Choices for Reproductive Justice
It is certainly an important time for America's discussions of health, but also an important time to talk about equality in America as it relates to access to reproductive health care.
|Jun 15 2009
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One Wrong Note
During the presidential campaign, candidate Barack Obama spoke eloquently about race in America and its continuing relevance to our national progress. But at the press conference marking his first 100 days, President Obama got it wrong.
Black Entertainment Television reporter Andre Showell asked the President:
|May 5 2009
Talking Points: The State of Opportunity Report (2009)
This memo offers guidance for using the 2009 State of Opportunity in America report, which examines various dimensions of opportunity, including health care, wealth and income, education, and incarceration. While expanding opportunity in America remains a goal of policymakers and advocates alike, this report finds that access to full and equal opportunity is still very much a mixed reality. Our recommendations to address this reality offer concrete ideas for moving us forward together.
|Apr 15 2009
Report: The State of Opportunity Report (2009)
This is the 2009 State of Opportunity report. Here you may download the final report, the final report with accompanying charts, a synopsis, and each of the indicators individually.
Read more about the report here.
|Apr 1 2009
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An Uneven Journey
Earlier this year, I visited my father, who lives in the Bay Area. As we drove from the Oakland airport, the conversation quickly turned to the Obama presidency. Born in 1923, my dad survived the Great Depression, fought in World War II, endured vicious Jim Crow segregation and violence, participated in the Civil Rights Movement, and, this year, witnessed the inauguration of an African-American president of the United States.
|Mar 24 2009
Report: The State of Opportunity Update (2007)
This is the 2007 update to the State of Opportunity report. There are two files, the full chart of indicators and a summary.
|Mar 15 2009
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Thursday Immigration Blog Roundup
Business Week Online and the New York Times report on the Kauffman Foundation's study on the "flood" of young and highly-educated Indian and Chinese immigrants returning to their countries of origin in light of decreasing job opportunities and increasing immigration backlog in the United States.
|Mar 5 2009
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Thursday Immigration Blog Roundup
This week's post will round up currently available immigration-related resources:
Data collected by the Census Bureau in 2007, summarized by the New York Times and the Center for Immigration Studies.
The Department of Homeland Security's new reports on:
|Feb 25 2009
Report: State of Opportunity (2006)
If the promise of opportunity is a core national commitment, it is essential to measure our success in fulfilling that commitment. This report assesses the nation's progress toward protecting and expanding opportunity for all Americans and encourages our policymakers, through bold leadership and innovative policies, to ensure the promise of o
|Feb 15 2009
Talking Points: The Supreme Court's School Diversity Cases (2007)
We recommend using the following messages to communicate the importance of pursuing inclusion in our schools, and outline the valid options for doing so.
|Jan 29 2009
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Dr. King's Modern Legacy
In the days just before and after Dr. Martin Luther King Jr.'s 80th birthday, I had the opportunity to visit two places that are integral to his modern day legacy: Washington, DC and the Lower Ninth Ward of New Orleans. As I witnessed the inauguration of Barack Obama as the nation's 44th president, I thought of Dr. King's admonition, in his 1963 I Have a Dream Speech, that "we cannot be satisfied as long as a Negro in Mississippi cannot vote and a Negro in New York believes he has nothing for which to vote." Despite some continuing problems at the ballot box, this was an election about which Dr. King could be truly satisfied; African Americans turned out in record numbers to elect the nation's first African-American president.
In the same speech, Dr. King reminded the nation that "when the architects of our republic wrote the magnificent words of the Constitution and the Declaration of Independence, they were signing a promissory note to which every American was to fall heir. This note was a promise that all men, yes, black men as well as white men, would be guaranteed the 'unalienable Rights' of 'Life, Liberty and the pursuit of Happiness.'"
For anyone who's visited the Gulf Coast recently, it is obvious that America has defaulted on this promissory note, insofar as the people of the Lower Ninth Ward—overwhelmingly poor and African-American—are concerned. The world witnessed in 2005 how our government left the region's people to drown in their homes and suffer unspeakable conditions in the New Orleans Convention Center and Superdome. More than three years later, that abandonment continues.
|Jan 23 2009
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Human Rights: More American Than Apple Pie
"Human rights is not marginal to who we are; human rights defines who we are. The United States is a country defined by human rights. 'We hold these truths to be self-evident, that all persons are created equal'….
|Dec 10 2008
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How Not to Blow It
It's hard to overstate the transformative moment that we're in as a nation and, particularly, as progressives. In just a few years, we've gone from the high point of conservative power to a stunning rejection of conservative federal leadership and the historic election of a progressive African-American president.
But the electoral sea change is just part of the extraordinary national moment. The financial meltdown and slide toward deep recession have crystallized Americans' anger over deteriorating economic security, stagnant mobility, growing inequality, and policies of isolation instead of connection. Americans are ready for a new social compact and a transformed relationship between the people and our government. They are calling for a new era of big ideas and different values than we've seen over most of the past three decades.
The electorate has shown an unprecedented willingness to overcome racial and ethnic barriers to take on daunting shared challenges. Young people, people of color, and low-income people turned out to register and vote in unprecedented numbers that bode well for a far more participatory and egalitarian democracy going forward.
Even before this year's remarkable events, opinion research showed a historic, progressive shift in Americans' views on issues that (not coincidentally) were barely mentioned in the election. Perhaps most striking is the shift on criminal justice and problems of addiction, where the U.S. public has moved broadly to support rehabilitation and treatment over incarceration and retribution, as well as assistance and integration for people emerging from prison.
But an unprecedented opportunity for progressive values and ideas is not the same as victory for a progressive social and policy vision. The stark challenges of rising inequality, faltering security, and broken systems of health care, immigration, and criminal justice are the same on November 5 as they were on November 4. What's changed is only the chance for transformative change.
History shows that progressives could easily blow this opportunity, just as conservatives blew their transformative moments after the 1994 elections and the attacks of September 11, 2001. A few principles can help progressives move from opportunity to realization in ways that profoundly benefit our country.
|Nov 5 2008
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The Promise of Opportunity
Taking another look at "New Progressive Voices," a collection of essays outlining a new long-term, progressive vision for America, today we turn to our Executive Director, Alan Jenkins', contribution.
The piece paints a bleak picture. Alan outlines many of the problems facing regular Americans today. Many people are having trouble getting a job that pays a living wage, paying for health care, and getting their children into quality schools. Tying this together with the present high rates of incarceration, all signs point to a general lack of opportunity in America.
In keeping with goals of this essay collection Alan's essay, "The Promise of Opportunity," strives to give concrete solutions to these communal ills. Alan's essay suggests making "opportunity" a metric by which to consider the viability of federal programs.
To read the full article, click here.
|Sep 23 2008
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60th Anniversary of the Universal Declaration of Human Rights
Yesterday was the 60th Anniversary of the Universal Declaration of Human Rights, a ground-breaking document initiated and championed by the United States and Eleanor Roosevelt. Frank Knaack of the ACLU Human Rights Program writes about the significance of the Universal Declaration in the United States and where we are today in fulfilling the promise of "the foundation of the modern human rights system":
The Opportunity Agenda is dedicated to bringing human rights home. We are proud to work with coalitions such as the U.S. Human Rights Network and the Human Right to Health Capacity Building Collaborative to build the national, state, and local will to make human rights a real and effective tool for realizing American opportunity.
U.S. Human Rights Reports and Tools from The Opportunity Agenda:
|Jun 19 2008
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"Brave New Laws" by Alan Jenkins at OurFuture.org
Check out The Opportunity Agenda Executive Director Alan Jenkins' new column, "Brave New Laws," at the Campaign for America's Future blog, Blog for Our Future. Jenkins discusses the need for new, proactive laws that recognize what technological advances and scientific research have clearly demonstrated--that many Americans are still at risk of discrimination:
|May 7 2008
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You're Invited to a Hill Briefing on CERD and Health Inequality
Here's an event that folks interested in health equity and human rights might want to attend ...
Congressional Briefing on Health Inequality and the Convention on the Elimination of All Forms of Racial Discrimination (CERD)
The U.S. government recently filed a required periodic report to the United Nations on the nation's progress toward the elimination of racial discrimination. The report cited progress in many areas, including health and health care. The U.N. CERD Committee agreed with some aspects of the report but noted that the United States has failed to recognize and remedy instances where facially-neutral policies contribute to inequality in health and health care.
To address these issues, several dozen non-governmental organizations and individual scholars, under the leadership of the Poverty and Race Research Action Council, prepared a "shadow" report, Unequal Health Outcomes in the United States (available at http://www.prrac.org/pdf/CERDhealthEnvironmentReport.pdf), that illustrates instances of non-compliance with CERD in the right to health, health care access, and treatment, and outlines steps to correct them.
You are invited to a special briefing with some of the collaborators on this report to learn of the extent of racial inequality in health and environmental health, their causes, and actions that government can take to address them. This panel discussion, moderated by Brian Smedley of The Opportunity Agenda, will feature presentations from Katrina Anderson of the Center for Reproductive Rights, Steve Hitov of the National Health Law Program, Rea Pañares of Families USA, and Philip Tegeler of the Poverty and Race Research Action Council, and will take place on April 24 from 1:30pm - 3:00pm in room HC-8 of the Capitol. To RSVP for the briefing, please call or email Kara Forsyth of the Raben Group at (202) 223-2848 or firstname.lastname@example.com. All are invited, but seating is limited and priority will be giving to Congressional staff and members.
|Apr 16 2008
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Forty Years Later...
One of the greatest values in a great leader is her or his dedication to serve others. Forty years following the assassination of Dr. Martin Luther King Jr., our country is obsessed with the race for our next executive leader who will serve as President.
Dr. King preached once that the greatest leader was the one who was a servant. But what is truly great was that each and every one of us can be a servant, bringing about greatness in our own way.
Building a community that fosters opportunity for all can come when we all realize our potential to become a great leader. We might not have the strobed flashes of a photographers camera bearing down on us; nor might we have the motorcades and state dinners. But we do have each other. And when we serve one another, we see first-hand how a community that focuses on others, rather than the individual, can make the dreams that King dreamed come true.
Recently, The Tavis Smiley Show on PRI focused on the current state of poverty in the United States, part of which included Alan Jenkins, Executive Director for The Opportunity Agenda. The program, "Below the Line," comes forty years after Dr. King's Poor Peoples Campaign, one of his greatest dreams of civil disobedience that was not realized until shortly after his death. Smiley's series offers a in-depth look into the issues faced by poor Americans, particularly people of color.
Listening to Smiley's series, in conjunction with the many King speeches that are available for free online, is a good source for motivation on how we can all better serve our community. It's going to take more than an executive decision from the White House to end poverty in this country. So, in addition to asking our next President how we can solve these problems, we should also ask ourselves how "we" can solve these problems. Thus, on this forty-year anniversary of Dr. King's death, what can you do--even on the smallest level--to bring about opportunity for all?
|Apr 4 2008
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Most Connecticut Residents Agree That Undocumented Immigrants Should Have a Path to Citizenship
A Quinnipiac Poll released today shows that a plurality, and almost majority, of Connecticut residents believe that undocumented immigrants should be offered a chance to apply for citizenship, preferring this policy option over either deportation or offering temporary worker status by a rate of 2-to-1.
The poll asked, among many other questions ranging from opinions on the current presidential candidates to the state of the economy:
47% of all respondents selected "citizenship," while only 27% and 22% selected "temporary workers" and "deported," respectively. 51% of all women and 59% of all African American residents agreed that a path to citizenship was the sound solution to addressing the status issue of undocumented immigrants.
These Connecticut residents are recognizing the importance of community, the American value of expanding opportunity for all members of our society and extending to newcomers both the rights and responsibilities that tie us together, as embodied in our national motto, E Pluribus Unum, "from many, one." Connecticuters (yes, that's what someone from Connecticut is called; either that, or "Yankee," as of King Arthur's Court) also hold strong the fundamental American value of mobility, the central concept of the American Dream which states that the economic, educational, and personal achievement should not be limited or determined by the circumstances of a person's birth.
|Mar 27 2008
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Media Allowed in on Mychal Bell's Trial
|Nov 16 2007
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All Things Being Equal: Instigating Opportunity in an Inequitable Time
The Real Cost of Prisons Weblog reposted a recent New York Times article on the Surge Seen in Number of Homeless Veterans. While many veterans have ended up the sort of post-traumatic stress disorder which often correlates with homelessness, it's unusual that veterans would show up in shelters as soon after deployment as have the most recent batch after duty in Iraq or Afghanistan. Sexual abuse is another factor which correlates with homelessness -- the article states that "roughly 40 percent of the hundreds of homeless female veterans of
|Nov 9 2007
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Writers Guild Fighting for Fair Pay While TV Networks Threaten To Cut Jobs
|Nov 7 2007
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Crackdown Policies Are Destroying Immigrant Families and Solidarity in Our Communities
|Nov 6 2007
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'Sanctuary' Challenged in Illinois, While Senate Considers FEC Nominee
|Sep 26 2007
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Preventing Another Jena 6
Alan Jenkins' new piece at TomPaine is now live. In this latest essay, Alan offers examples of what can be done to reduce detention and incarceration of young people while creating a more fair and effective judicial system.
|Sep 25 2007
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Progress in Jena, Thanks to the Black Blogosphere
CNN estimates that between 15,000 and 20,000 people attended yesterday's rally in Jena, Louisiana in support of six African-American students who were prosecuted unfairly for beating a white student after being threatened in a series of racially-motivated incidents. It's wonderful to see that so many people went out of their way (as much as 20 hours on a bus from Los Angeles, with children in tow) to stand up for fairness and equality in our judicial system, and there was not a single arrest in the process. In the photos of the event on Huffington Post, someone is carrying a banner that says "An Injustice ANYWHERE is an Injustice EVERYWHERE." That's a great illustration of the value of community, the sense that our lives and well-being are interconnected.
Two big developments have come out of the march. First, the Third District court ordered District Attorney Reed Walters to hold a hearing within 72 hours to discuss Mychal Bell's release from prison. Second, Congress announced that the House Judiciary Committee will be reviewing events in Jena, which is promising.
There has correspondingly been a good deal of discussion about the role the blogosphere and new media have played in what is now being referred to as the "21st Century Civil Rights movement," a new online movement with the ability to mobilize thousands of supporters in rapid time. Yet at a time in which Republicans and mainstream media are taking heat for ignoring people of color, the bigger, white progressive bloggers are also getting knocked for failing to report on happenings in Jena.
|Sep 21 2007
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Thousands Rally for Jena Six Day of Action
The biggest news of the day is that thousands of people have descended upon small-town Jena, Louisiana, to show their support for the group of six black high school students who have been victimized by racial injustice after beating up a white boy that taunted them with nooses. Today's rally has caught a good deal of mainstream media attention, with a Canadian paper even referring to the event as "one of the biggest protests since the 60s." For some video footage of the event, see CNN or the NAACP webcast at 4pm Central Time.
17-year-old Mychal Bell is unfortunately still in prison, this time because the prosecutors decided it was 'premature' to let him out after the charges against him were vacated. The judge then refused to set a date to hear the motion to release him, at very least to a juvenile facility. The rest of the students are awaiting trial.
We sincerely hope that today's march and the corresponding events around the country will help establish that equality involves much more than suspending white students from school while sending black students to prison.
And now, a quick run-down of some immigration happenings. It's been a high-energy couple days in this arena, too.
|Sep 20 2007
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Possible class-action lawsuit over May 1 LA police violence
The term 'sanctuary cities' has also been thrown around blogs and the news this week, largely connected with Homeland Security Secretary Michael Chertoff's threat to withhold government funding from cities that refuse to comply with its Basic Pilot program to require employers to verify the work authorization of their employees. As is happening in Arizona, this program is being contested on a national level by a coalition of civil rights organizations such as the ACLU on grounds that it "will threaten jobs of U.S. citizens and other legally authorized
There was a very informative piece posted yesterday about conditions in the prisons and detention centers of the Immigration and Customs Enforcement, or ICE. Apparently three people have died in detention in the last six weeks, including one pregnant woman, as detainees are regularly denied medical care. Hundreds have also suffered from food poisoning, at two different sites. Despite regular violations of their human rights, immigrants and asylees held there have little recourse. And even though the ICE system is the second largest jailer in the world, there are few regulations and little accountability placed upon them. This is the sort of situation where a little legislation could go a long way in protecting the members of our community that have been silenced.
Prometheus6 and rikyrah both cited a NY Times article yesterday to do with a mentally-retarded black man in Mississippi who is actually being retried for rape after DNA evidence indicated that he is not guilty. Given that he's already spent 15 years in prison, this overt racial discrimination and obstruction of justice is pretty hard to swallow.
Finally, there is a good deal of discussion in Congress at the moment about the reauthorization of SCHIP, the State Children's Health Insurance program, which was designed in 1997 to provide health care for children whose families weren't eligible for Medicare but who are still unable to afford private insurance. The legislation must be reauthorized by September 30 if the program is to continue, but there is tremendous contention regarding how and how much to fund the program. President Bush is even promising to veto legislation on grounds that increased access to SCHIP will encourage people to enroll rather than work to insure themselves privately - again, here is another example of the "go-it-alone" narrative that has been so useful in eroding our sense of responsibility to the greater community.
|Sep 7 2007
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Oliver White Hill: 1907 - 2007
If you haven't already heard, civil rights lawyer Oliver White Hill, famous for his involvement in Brown v. Board of Education, died yesterday.
|Aug 6 2007
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|Jul 12 2007
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Moving Forward from the Supreme Court's School Cases
Yesterday the Supreme Court issued decisions in two cases regarding whether communities can voluntarily use measures that consider race to avoid segregation and promote diversity in their public schools. (Parents Involved in Community Schools v. Seattle School District, 05-908 and Meredith v. Jefferson County Board of Education, 05-915).
Much of the news reporting on the cases has gotten it wrong, describing the outcome as a 5-to-4 opinion by Chief Justice John Roberts against voluntary school integration. In fact, the outcome of these cases was a 4-to-1-to-4 decision in which Justice Anthony Kennedy (the "1") controlled the outcome and wrote a mixed opinion with both positive and negative implications for the future of diversity and our Constitution.
Justice Kennedy voted with Roberts, Alito, Scalia, and Thomas to strike down the specific policies used by the Louisville and Seattle school districts, but also agreed with Justices Souter, Stevens, Ginsburg, and Breyer that educational diversity and combating segregation are compelling governmental interests that governments may pursue through careful efforts that consider race.
Justice Kennedy (and therefore a majority of the Court) firmly rejected Chief Justice Roberts' position that considering race in a careful way to promote inclusion inflicts the same constitutional harm as the hateful segregation laws that Brown v. Board of Education began to overturn. Kennedy's opinion says, "[t]he enduring hope is that race should not matter; the reality is that it too often does," and notes that "as an aspiration, Justice Harlan's axiom [that our Constitution is "colorblind"] must command our assent. In the real world, it is regrettable to say, it cannot be a universal constitutional principle."
What Justice Kennedy (and, therefore, the Court) says is unconstitutional is considering the race of individual students in determining their school assignment. That element, and the inexact details of the particular Seattle and Louisville plans, Kennedy said, made those programs insufficiently narrow in their tailoring to meet constitutional muster.
According to most educators and advocates concerned about promoting diversity and inclusion, Justice Kennedy "gets it"; he just doesn't get how hard it is. In other words, he understands and articulates well why integration is so important to equal educational opportunity, and to the future of our nation. But he fails to see why achieving it sometimes requires attention to the details of student assignment. Research and practical experience show that considering broad demographic trends in school attendance policy is necessary, but not always sufficient, to fostering diverse and inclusive schools.
So the Court's ruling will no doubt make it harder to bring our kids together across lines of difference. Yet it's very important to acknowledge the remarkable victory for the principles of integration, inclusion and diversity, which a majority of the Court strongly embraced yesterday.
So now that consideration of individual student characteristics in school assignment is off the table in the K-12 voluntary integration context, what can schools, policymakers, parents and their children do to promote the vision of inclusion that a majority of the Court endorsed?
Justice Kennedy's opinion makes clear that numerous options do remain, many of which include explicit consideration of race. His opinion says: "School boards may pursue the goal of bringing together students of diverse backgrounds and races through other means, including strategic site selection of new schools; drawing attendance zones with general recognition of the demographics of neighborhoods; allocating resources for special programs; recruiting students and faculty in a targeted fashion; and tracking enrollments, performance, and other statistics by race."
Educators and civil advocates are already hard at work to craft innovative approaches within the Court's parameters that work on the ground.
In addition, a number of civil rights laws, including the Civil Rights Act of 1964, still require schools to avoid segregation or exclusion of students by race. The Bush Administration has an atrocious record of enforcing those laws, and yesterday's decision should be an impetus to push for change. Certainly the next president should make it a priority.
Congress, too, has an important role to play in promoting inclusion and combating segregation in the wake of yesterday's decision. For example, Congress should allocate significant resources for communities that want to pursue diversity efforts in line with the Court's ruling. Federal support for school construction and expansion should depend, in part, on whether school locations and attendance zones will foster or stymie integration.
And, of course, the U.S. Senate must give far greater scrutiny of judicial nominees than it has done to date. It's deeply disturbing that four members of the Court—including the two newest members (Roberts and Alito) nominated by President Bush—would have outlawed almost all effective efforts to promote inclusion in our nation's schools. And their view that the modest voluntary integration efforts at issue in these cases are constitutionally tantamount to Jim Crow-era segregation is nothing short of outrageous.
While a majority of the Court correctly rejected that extreme position, the Chief Justice's opinion—joined by Justices Alito, Scalia, and Thomas—fundamentally misunderstands the purpose of our Constitution and highlights the importance of exacting questioning of the President's judicial nominations by the U.S. Senate. Flawed as Justice Kennedy's opinion is on this subject, it's worth noting that, if not for the rigorous questioning and consideration of President Reagan's Supreme Court nominee 20 years ago, Robert Bork would have been the fifth conservative vote in this and many other decisions, instead of Justice Kennedy.
Additional details regarding the decisions may be found at www.naacpldf.org and www.civilrights.org.
|Jun 29 2007
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|Jun 11 2007
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NAACP Legal Defense Fund Starts to Blog
NAACPLDF has started to blog. Check out one of their first posts, covering the school integration cases now before the Supreme Court:
|May 22 2007
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Struggling to Get From Many to One
Alan's Jenkin's latest piece at Tom Paine is live:
|May 22 2007
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Get the kids talking about diversity!
Back in December when the Supreme Court was hearing arguments in the school integration cases, diversity in our public schools was a hot topic. Guess what, it still matters. The level of diversity in our schools is helping to guide the futures of so many children. Let's be honest: children learn so much in their schools besides what's in the textbook. Let's allow children to learn from one another the richness of our many cultures and backgrounds.
The National Campaign to Restore Civil Rights has a writing contest for kids going on right now. I just found out about it, but there's still time to join. They're calling for essays from kids ages 12 to 17. Children under the age of 12 can participate by submitting a quote. The contest simply asks America's children: "Why is diversity important in our public schools?"
For more information on the contest follow this link! http://www.rollbackcampaign.org/library.cfm?fa=detail&id=127631&appView=folder
|Mar 16 2007
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Separate and Unequal Transport
At the end of December, three advocacy groups in San Francisco released MTC, Where Are Our Buses?, a report about disparities in transportation funding which adversely affect people of color and low-income populations. Public Advocates, Urban Habitat, and Communities for a Better Environment (CBE) have labeled the Bay Area's transit system "Separate and Unequal," and provide compelling evidence to support their claim.
Released on the 50-year anniversary of the civil rights campaign to integrate bus service in Montgomery, Alabama, the report details recent funding and route decisions made by the Metropolitan Transportation Commission (MTC), and how they have impacted the local population. At issue are the differences in subsidies provided to Bay Area Rapid Transit (BART), Caltrain (both of which service primarily white suburbs), and AC Transit buses to the East Bay area (a region in which 80% of the residents are people of color). According to a press release by Urban Habitat, the report "details both the sizeable funding disparities per passenger, and the resulting disparities in transit service as BART and Caltrain services have more than doubled, while AC Transit service has contracted by 30%." Further, the report provides data that "public dollars subsidize the trips of BART and Caltrain commuters, who are disproportionately white, at three to five times higher levels than the trips of AC Transit's mostly minority ridership."
The report also discusses local efforts to hold the MTC accountable, from a class-action law suit filed in federal court, alleging racial discrimination, to the MTC Minority Citizens' Advisory Committee's (MCAC) which has issued a series of recommendations on improving environmental justice. So far, the MTC has yet to institute any changes in its policy.
According to AJ Napolis of Urban Habitat, "At stake is not only the access of low-income bus riders and their families to economic and educational opportunities, but the vitality of our communities," citing a study that a cut in transport funding can cost a community ten times more in travel costs and lost income.
|Feb 8 2007
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God Grew Tired of Us
Next time you head to the movies you must check the powerful and inspiring film, God Grew Tired Of Us. It will be released in NYC and around the country this week. It explores American opportunity through a unique lens, following the lives of Sudanese refugees from the war in Southern Sudan to resettlement in the United States. It highlights how these men try to retain their culture while seizing opportunity in America -- earning a living, going to school, and providing for families back home. It investigates American culture and the American dream, and explores the pros and cons of life in the Unites States.
Here's a trailer for the movie: and a summary from the website: "Winner of both the Grand Jury Prize and the Audience Award at the 2006 Sundance Film Festival, GOD GREW TIRED OF US explores the indomitable spirit of three "Lost Boys" from the Sudan who leave their homeland, triumph over seemingly insurmountable adversities and move to America, where they build active and fulfilling new lives but remain deeply committed to helping the friends and family they have left behind. Orphaned by a tumultuous civil war and traveling barefoot across the sub-Saharan desert, John Bul Dau, Daniel Abol Pach and Panther Blor were among the 25,000 "Lost Boys" (ages 3 to 13) who fled villages, formed surrogate families and sought refuge from famine, disease, wild animals and attacks from rebel soldiers. Named by a journalist after Peter Pan's posse of orphans who protected and provided for each other, the "Lost Boys" traveled together for five years and against all odds crossed into the UN's refugee camp in Kakuma, Kenya. A journey's end for some, it was only the beginning for John, Daniel and Panther, who along with 3800 other young survivors, were selected to re-settle in the United States."
For another interesting take on opportunity (and the barriers to it) in America and the Lost Boys, the book What is the What by David Eggers is a must read. It is based on the life of Valentino Achak Deng, and at 400+ pages, the book provides a nuanced account of the history of the Lost Boys and life after resettlement in America.
Finally, if you'd like to learn more about the conflict in Sudan and join efforts to help out, The International Crisis Group website has a short list of recommendations, including writing to your elected representatives and writing to media urging more coverage of the situation.
|Jan 8 2007
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A Bipartisan Civil Rights Legacy
Our executive director has a new op-ed posted at TomPaine.com. Here's a snippet:
|Jan 5 2007
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IMPORTANT: CAPO ON 3RD FRET Intro: e|---------------------------------------------------------------| B|---------------3-------3-------3-------------------------------| G|-------0---------0-------0---2---2-----------------------------| D|-------------0-------2-----0-----------------------------------| A|-----2-------------3-------------------------------------------| E|---0-----2-3---------------------------------------------------| verse 1: this is the riff fro all of the verses e|---------------------------------------------------------------| B|---------------3-------3-------3-------------------------------| G|-------0---------0-------0---2---2-----------------------------| D|-------------0-------2-----0-----------------------------------|X4 A|-----2-------------3-------------------------------------------| E|---0-----2-3---------------------------------------------------| Just have a little patience Still hurting from a love I lost, I'm feeling your frustration, but in any minute all the pain will stop, PRE CHORUS: Cadd9 G Cadd9 just hold me close inside your arms tonight, A don't be to hard on my emotions. CHORUS: em Cadd9 G D em Cadd9 G D Cause I, need time, em Cadd9 My heart is numb has no feeling G D So while I'm still healing em Cadd9 G D em G C D Just try, and have a little patience VERSE: Verse: I really wanna start over again I know you wanna be my salvation The one that I can always depend Pre-Chorus I'll try to be strong, believe me I'm trying to move on Its complicated but understand me, Chrous: Cause I, need time, My heart is numb has no feeling So while I'm still healing C G Just try, and have a little patience yeah C G Have a little patience yeah. C h Cause the scars run so deep, a G D its been hard but I have to believe em G C D have a little patience em G C D have a little patience Woohoo Chorus: Cause I, I just need time, My heart is numb has no feeling So while I'm still healing Just try, and have a little patience Have a little patience My heart is numb has no feeling So while I'm still healing Just try, and have a little patience
sounds dandy to me :) 5 stars :)
good stuff, but a little mistake in the intro. while playing the C shape thingy, it goes like this:


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'Life is a bowl of cherries.'
It's May with Megan, my secret partner for the month @ The Secret Recipe Club, the brainchild of the very talented & sweet Amanda of Amanda's Cookin'. The idea behind the club – Each month you are "assigned" a participating food blogger to make a recipe from. It's a secret, so don't tell them you are making something from their blog!I was thrilled to find my April Secret Challenge recipe picked by The Pioneer Woman in her post Web Deliciousness: Strawberries!
Ree was generous with her words. She said "Old Fashioned Eggless Chocolate Cake with Balsamic Strawberry Cream Filling by Passionate About Baking. This is the first time I've seen this food blog and the photos are just spectacular, not to mention the treats themselves. Wow.", and then went on to add another of my posts in the round-up to say"Whipped Strawberry Curd Cream Tartlets with Walnut Shortbread Crust. My, oh my. I don't know what to say."
I love Megans blog Megans Cookin' – Sweet, Savoury, Simple … goes the tagline. Her blog is delicious and we are addicted to her chocolate chip oatmeal snack bars; these are a weekly bake in our home. I have tried them in numerous avatars, with different flour substitutions like whole wheat and buckwheat {in addition to healthy oats in there}, and with different conserves, jams etc {homemade bitter orange marmalade, homemade strawberry vanilla bean conserve, blueberry conserve} …… with chocolate chips, with dark chocolate on top, without dark chocolate on top. They are THAT POPULAR at home and the kids love them! I had made a batch the morning I got a mail from Amanda telling me my secret partner was Megan. Could Amanda have guessed what I had just baked? I couldn't post the same bars again as I have already done so on PAB. I hadn't slathered them with dark chocolate this time because the weather is really hot, so I thought I'd use them some other way!Here's what I did. I ran about 5-6 energy bars in my thermomix and got fine biscuit crumbs. My plan was to use them as a sweet tart base, with a cherry pie filling as cherries are in season here and very very tempting to use! Thought I'd do a bittersweet chocolate filling as in this Bittersweet Chocolate Marquise with Crème Chantilly & Balsamic Cherry Sauce I had recently made.That morning, an ardent local baker, the sweet Nidhi, messaged me literally begging me for a vegetarian something after she had drooled over the Bittersweet Chocolate Marquise. She's allergic to eggs; I just had to oblige this lovely girl. {BTW, Nidhi, just finished reading the book you got me, and I loved it!}So the filling was rapidly reworked to accommodate Nidhi and her no egg request. You will not believe how delicious this turned out to be!! Finger-licking good, and well set too. Chocolate and cherries, like chocolate and strawberries, are a combination made to please the spirit!For folk with egg allergies or for a vegetarian version, I have an eggless tart recipe in this Whipped Strawberry Curd Cream Tartlets with Walnut Shortbread Crust. You could also use graham crackers or digestive biscuit crumbs.Take a look at the cross section. A filling that was smooth, luscious and sang the dark chocolate cherry song out loud! The diva on diet begged for more, and adamantly had two helpings despite being literally hit on the head and reminded of her diet! The son charmed his way to seconds! The base was full of chocolaty goodness too … a winner of a tart!This time I didn't cook the cherries into a sauce. I barely simmered them in brown sugar and balsamic vinegar for 1-2 minutes, just to soften them and to help get them a glazed look, then fished them out of the sauce and cooked the syrup to a thick reduction. Oh, I added a dash of lime juice as well to give it a kick. Worked nicely!
[print_this]Recipe: Nutella & Cherry Chocolate Tart
Summary: A vegetarian filling /chocolate tart filled with deeply luscious dark couverture chocolate and nutella.
Prep Time: 15 minutes
Total Time: 40 minutes
- 1 sweet chocolate tart base, 9″ {recipe follows, or premade etc}
- 500ml low fat cream, room temperature
- 200gms dark chocolate {I used 55% couverture}
- 2/3 cup Nutella
- 2 tbsp cornflour
- 100gms fresh cherries, pitted, halved
- Mix cornflour in 1/2 cup low fat cream.
- Place remaining cream, dark chocolate and Nutella in a heavy bottom pan, and simmer until the chocolate melts, stirring constantly.
- Add the remaining cream & cornflour mix and continue to stir until mixture thickens to a batter like texture, thicker than flowing custard.
- Cool for about 30 minutes. Sprinkle baked tart shell with the pitted and halved cherries. Pour the chocolate mixture over this, level out and chill for at least 3-4 hours, until set. Pour the balsamic cherry topping over, chill for another 30 minutes, remove from pan and serve.
Recipe: Chocolate Tart
Prep Time: 15 minutes
Total Time: 40 minutes
- 5-6 energy bars {recipe here}, powdered in processor
- 50gms unsalted butter, melted
- Preheat the oven to 180C. Keep a 9″ round tart pan with a removable base ready.
- Mix the cookies crumbs and butter.
- Turn out into a 9″ tart pan and pat out evenly to cover the base and work into the sides. Mine was uneven on the sides, but the filling merged in later. {Also was not roll-able maybe because of the intense heat}
- Bake for about 30 minutes. Cool completely on rack. It will firm up when cool. Loosen the shell, and leave it in the tart pan.
Recipe: Balsamic Cherry Topping
Prep Time: 10 minutes
Total Time: 10 minutes
- 100gms fresh cherries, pitted
- 50gms brown sugar
- 1 tbsp balsamic vinegar
- Place all the ingredients in a saucepan and simmer for a minute
- Remove the cherries to a bowl, and continue to cook the syrup until reduce and thick. Pour the syrup over the cherries, and cool completely.
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Ur sooo sweet! really this post was such a welcome surprise! Im baking this on the weekend! Btw this weekend I made your peach cherry bars and a plum cake (dorie greenspan) recipe and both were superr yumm. Im glad u liked the book and im loving this post! Thank u:-)
Dear Deeba Im agree with Ree, you have one of trhe most fabolous and beauty site with amazing pics and recipes. Really!!
Dear you have here a lot of beauties I love cherries and chocolate are amazing! xoxoxo gloria
OMG Deeba, that looks positively amazing! I wish I could take a bite! o glad you played along again this month 😉
Oh Deeba, what a lovely tart. You are just brilliant! I love it. And thank you for the sweet words. I really appreciate it. You made my day. 🙂
Hi Deeba,
All your posts tempts me so much that I want to try them all!I just wish if I had a bunch of people arund to eat all I baked. I could have baked all ur goodies…I just posted your Espresso cupcakes sans ganache. Give it a check @ http://shabscuisine.blogspot.com/2011/05/espresso-chocolate-chip-cupcakes.html . I loved them. Next on my to try list are ur cappuccino cupcakes. I wanted to try that ever since I saw at ur space and then just forgot!
I love that you turned ordinary chocolate chip oatmeal snack bars in to a work of art. Gorgeous. I love Megan. She was my roomie at BlogherFood last year. She's so sweet and fun. And of course, a great cook. I really must make the chocolate chip oatmeal snack bars.
A droolworthy tart! Really beautiful.
Ah yes, I too have been feeling the Nutella love these days 😀
beautiful tart.
*kisses* HH
Your beautiful photography is so inspiring. The tart looked so delicious that I almost wanted to lick the screen. Fantastic!
Drool! Drool! You make the cherries come alive….your pictures are an absolute treat…wish one day, I could do such amazing clicks as yours on my blog…the recipe looks brilliant too…
As always, amazing pictures! Plus the recipe looks super delicious 🙂
This looks SO good! I love chocolate and cherries together – such a perfect pairing! Yum yum yum. 🙂
That tart looks simply incredible as though it's covered with beautiful jewels.
Deeba, your creations are always so mouth watering-ly good! The filling looks so luscious! And, as always great photos!
Thrilled to have taken part in SRC with you Deeba. When will I ever get to meet you?
That tart is simply stunning. I love how you used the oatmeal bars in the crust. All that syrupy cherry topping has me drooling!
Deeba, as always this is a gorgeous item you have made!!! I would definitely love to dig in as cherries and chocolate have always been a favorite of mine! Beautiful…
Gorgeous as always Deeba! i wish strawberries and cherries were as cheap here. I wld bake with them more often. they are such beautiful fruits and perfect for baking. Thanks for this egg free recipe. must try :))
That looks amazing! What a great "fancy dinner finish" this one must be!
I have never had balsamic vinegar with cherries, but I love it when it is reduced. Sounds delicious. Great tart!
Deeba, I just came across your blog as part of the Secret Recipe Club. Wow! Your photography is absolutely stunning!! (as is the Cherry Chocolate Tart :))
This tart is absolutely gorgeous! Thank you for yet another inspirational post. And a special thank you for introducing me to Amanda's Secret recipe club – I found out about it last month through your blog, and registered for this month's event at the last moment :-).
Lovely! I love baking with nutella. I also like your header. Perfect for the berry season!
Drool………………….It has got so much yummy stuff in it, I really need to taste this one
Deeba! You make me want to run to the market and buy cherries and chocolate (and I don't even like chocolate)!
What a gorgeous creation! And your mention on PW's round-up well deserved. Cherries and Chocolate a perfect match 🙂
That tart does look amazing, you can't beat a chocolate and cherry combination in my view.
With a late Spring I can't wait for cherry season to begin!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
Your chocolate cherry tart sounds awesome! Rich & fabulous 🙂
That tart looks gorgeous D! Love that luscious filling!! I was soo happy to see you on PW 😀
Wow Deeba…looks SO delicious. Love that you made the crust out of energy bars 🙂
Beautiful pictures of a beautiful dessert!
Looks gorgeous… like all your recipes look! Am going to have to request you for some baking and photography classes since I live in your neck of the woods!
absolutely love it! What a winning combination – nutella and strawberries!
oops sorry! I mean cherries 🙂
This looks so good, Deeba. Love Nutella. Need to try this!
Deeba – you have outdone yourself – those pictures is making my mouth water!!! WOW – this looks soooo good. I wish i could just taste it – i guess i will just have to try to make it 🙂 Love hopping around to see what everyone is making!
Congrats on the feature by Ree! And wow how creative is that — making crust from energy bars. And you know I could never resist anything with cherry OR nutella. Divine!
I'm not sure if my previous comment went through…but this looks fantastic (so creative to use energy bars for crust) and congrats on the feature!
That silky filling looks amazing! I love cherries with chocolate, so this is a dessert for me. The cherries on top look like jewels.
Oh wow, this sounds wickedly good. I love everything about this recipe and cherry season just just just started where I am! Can't wait to try this. The balsamic cherries are an amazing touch.
Oh wow, those cherries look so ooey gooey delicious! I love the picture of the side-view of a slice. Totally mouth-watering!
Another great recipe here, Deeba! I am not surprised that Ree featured one of your recipes and was blown away by your talent:) In discovering your blog, she landed on a gold mine!
Deeba this is beautiful! Chocolate and cherries are so classic too.
Cherries and chocolate = the perfect union. This looks absolutely, breathtakingly beautiful and delicious. I am feeling "swoony". 🙂
Oh my what a delicious dessert. I would indulge. Have a great week-end 🙂
Wow, Nutella and cherries, two of my favorite ingredients together in one tart! Looks incredible. 🙂
The tart looks so god.
OMG, want want want this cherry and nutella tart! It looks incredible!!
oh my ! that tart looks so sinful & tempting 😀 your pictures are always a treat for my eyes…
I remember seeing – some time back – on your site, details from where good quality chocolate and vanilla extract could be sourced from.
would be happy if you can re-post that information.
Thanks a ton,
I am very thrilled to receive such a prompt response to not only my specific query, but to a host of unasked questions that keep popping up when I browse through your website.
I love the pictures on your website, thanks once again.


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