Over the summer, the University of North Carolina Chapel-Hill announced its plan to offer Nikole Hannah-Jones, the creator of the 1619 project, a tenured position in the Hussman School of Journalism as the Knight Chair…
Monthly Archives For June 2021
Suppressing and Punishing Speech to Fight Racism in Public Schools
Even before the death of George Floyd under the knee of a Minneapolis police officer, universities had demonstrated that they were in thrall with an obsession about racism and racial equity. Diversocrats in bloated fiefdoms…
Virginia school board ends public comment after outcry over transgender pronouns
A northern Virginia school district survived its most recent public meeting after parents and protesters disrupted the meeting during the public comment period. Loudoun County’s school board cut off public comment during its meeting on…
Parents’ fury shocks critical race theory supporters
“Woe is me” is the rallying cry from many public school districts and teachers’ unions across the nation, after parents protested decisions to include critical race theory in education curriculum. NBC News sided with school…
Left-wing scholars blast states banning critical race theory
Blowback against critical race theory has spread across the country, where Republican-majority state legislatures have proposed or passed laws banning critical race theory in school classrooms. Now, academics criticize these efforts as heavy-handed, authoritarian, and…
Virginia school board member claims graduates enter a racist world
Speeches at graduation used to be nonpartisan, uplifting, generalized addresses to encourage optimism within graduates, whether it was at the high school or college level. But a northern Virginia school board member chose to politicize…
Biden’s Justice Department withers under LGBTQ activist criticism
The Department of Justice, under the leadership of Biden’s attorney general, Merrick Garland, backtracked in its strong language in defending Title IX’s religious exemption in a court filing. Last week, the department said it intended…
Purdue University counters critical race theory
Purdue University’s Board of Trustees was scheduled to vote on a civic literacy requirement, which opponents called a suppression of academic free speech, in order to counter critical race theory propaganda. The proposal was not…
Virginia teacher reinstated after transgender pronoun policy criticism
A teacher in the northern Virginia suburbs was reinstated by a judge, after the school district suspended him for criticizing the systems’ preferred pronoun policy. Byron “Tanner” Cross went viral when he went before the…
North Carolina fights back against Critical Race Theory
In the summer of 2020, Google searches for police brutality and systematic racism skyrocketed. Captivated by the media attention devoted to the murder of George Floyd and other African Americans by police officers, the public…