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150 years after Robert E. Lee surrendered at Appomattox, Americans are still fighting over the great issues at the heart of the conflict. Wikimedia Commons On this 150th anniversary of the surrender at Appomattox, Americans mark the end of the Civil War. The questions at the heart of the war, though, still occupy the nation,…
Steven B. Chesbro and John Garland say that African-American candidates for admission to the university as well as faculty positions were given preference. Alabama State UniversityScreenshot /sl-art-illo-cap /sl-art-illo-cntr Two white faculty members at Alabama State University have filed a lawsuit against the school in which they claim that ASU discriminates against whites in its hiring…
Just in time for Holy Week, the State of Indiana has passed a new Religious Freedom Restoration Act. The law explicitly permits for-profit corporations from practicing the “free exercise of religion” and it allows them to use the “exercise of religion” as a defense against any lawsuits whether from the government or from private entities….
A student holds up a sign during Wednesday’s meeting of the UNC Board of Trustees. Photo by Tasia Harris | The Huffington Post Entry Text Students at the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill are renewing a push for the school to change the name of a building named after a 19th-century Ku Klux…
Where’d you go, conservative defenders of free speech and academic inquiry? Just a few days ago, you were championing a college student who said he’d been removed from class for expressing skepticism over some very dubious sexual assault statistics. But now that the story has taken a turn, you’ve grown so quiet. Last week, Reed…
George Zimmerman Says God and Justice Are on His Side In a new video released by his law firm, Trayvon Martin’s killer says he feels no survivor’s remorse because it was God’s plan for the teenager to die. George Zimmerman Screenshot/Video from Ayo and Iken Law Firm /sl-art-illo-cap /sl-art-illo-cntr If the moral arc of…
AD ads_sharebox_260x60 American comedian, civil rights activist and writer Dick Gregory weighed in on the use of the N-word. (Photo by Unique Nicole/FilmMagic) Entry Text When it comes to the use of the N-word, Dick Gregory is no stranger to explaining his candid thoughts on the issue. The legendary civil rights activist and comedian, who…
Entry Text Recently, Lindsay Lohan made news for tweeting the n-word. I’ve been told that she was tweeting one of Kanye West’s lyrics. Madonna, whom I adored as my own personal cone bra’d freedom fighter since middle school, also had a similar social media debacle.Kanye using this word in a song doesn’t take away the…
CNN tonight reevaluated “hands up, don’t shoot” in the wake of the DOJ report that it never happened, and brought on a panel that nearly came to blows arguing over the report’s findings and the “hands up” symbol. Brian Stelter filed a report on the media coverage of Ferguson and the gesture, even acknowledging the…
According to a new Wall Street Journal /NBC News Poll, the voters who will pick the next Republican presidential nominee will likely be overwhelmingly white. In the poll, 95 percent of the respondents who said they were GOP primary voters were white. Remarkably, this is even less racially diverse than the American population as a whole…