A UCLA law professor avers that they do indeed have civil rights.
Topic: civil rights
Parents Unhappy with Illinois High School Seminar on Microaggressions
From Campus Reform: Parents of students attending New Trier High School in Illinois are dismayed by the school’s insistence on hosting a civil rights “Seminar Day” that discusses white privilege, microaggressions, and implicit bias. On…
Teen Threw Paper Airplane at Teacher, Faces a Month in Jail
From Reason: Georgetown County, South Carolina, sheriff’s deputies arrested a 17-year-old for throwing a paper airplane at a teacher. The teen was charged with third degree assault and battery, and faces 30 days in jail….
Why Martin Luther King, Jr. Still Matters
It is startling to realize how much the Reverend Martin Luther King, Jr. accomplished in a life span that did not even reach 40 years. At last year’s Modern Language Association (MLA) convention, Adrienne Brown…
Maryland Lawyers: To Help Black Colleges, Move Programs from Mostly White Colleges
You can’t make this up… lawyers proposing moving an entire program from one college to another in the name of a civil rights lawsuit? Civil rights attorneys in Maryland argued yesterday that, as a remedy…
Civil Rights History, Queered
Occasionally, professors at the Modern Language Association (MLA) have good points to make. Unfortunately, they soon get buried in the MLA’s favorite themes and concepts. “Chicago remains one of the most deeply segregated cities in…
Target, Transgenderism, and Transformation
Target Corp. (TGT) stock has plunged approximately 12% less than a month after the organization declared that its transgender customers and employees could utilize “…the restroom or fitting room facility that corresponds with their gender…
Martin Luther King Jr.’s Civil Rights Movement is Nothing Like Today’s Activists, Clemson Professor Writes
Dr. David Woodard made some great points about today’s activist students: A political science professor at Clemson university drew a stark contrast Monday between recent student protests and Martin Luther King, Jr.’s Civil Rights Movement….
School District Discriminated Against Evangelical College for Religious Beliefs
A school district in Massachusetts was told their actions of severing their relationship with the private evangelical Gordon College, was unconstitutional, by a civil rights commission. This could lead to further legal action against the…
Anti-Discrimination Rule that Discriminates
When scholars enthuse over laws and regulations, they are often the last to notice the unintended consequences of the statutes and rules. “Why is every attempt that involves aggressive enforcement of civil rights laws against…
Faculty Lounge
LGBT Activist goes to Harvard, Interprets Bible as Approving of Monogamous, Gay Relationships
Student Government Puts CRs on I.C.E., I.C.E. Baby
CUNY Law School Dean: Eight-Minute Disruptive Protests during Guest Speech is ‘Reasonable Exercise’ of Free Speech
Are Foreign Students Gaming Affirmative Action?
College President Resigns Before Plagiarism Investigation Concludes
Black Lives Matter Exposed
Book Review
Fact-Checking History’s First Draft
Journalism, the old cliché goes, is the first draft of history. Unfortunately, it rarely gets through rewrites before it hits the classroom. Yesterday’s headlines often look a bit silly when viewed through a microfiche, and…
Coming to a university near you
Before you find him on offer as a university speaker or course, you may want to read the meticulously documented story of Cop killer Mumia Abu-Jamal by former Accuracy in Academia executive director Dan Flynn.
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