Republican Gov. Ron DeSantis has the ire of the liberal mainstream media, entrenched teachers’ unions and education bureaucrats as his national profile rose during the coronavirus pandemic. Now, DeSantis is fending off challenges to his…
Topic: civil rights
Colleges conflicted about requiring vaccines
With students preparing to return to college campuses and in-person classes this fall, there is widespread confusion over the idea of requiring vaccines for students. Both public and private universities have seen a precipitous drop…
What Shall Corporations Overcome?
A UCLA law professor avers that they do indeed have 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….
Book Review
Book Review: America, Guns, and Freedom
As gun rights and gun control advocates, political surrogates, spokespeople, and groups contend over the future of the Second Amendment to the Constitution, Dr. Miguel Faria, Jr., M.D. published a book that gives extensive background,…
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