I deeply value free speech and debate. The watchlist created by Charlie Kirk’s Turning Point USA is anathema to both.
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I Am on Kirk’s “Professor Watchlist.” I Know How It Destroys Civil Debate. Read Post »
NFL star and noted activist Colin Kaerpernick is paying for an independent second autopsy for a Mississippi college student who was found hanging from a tree. Demartravion “Trey” Reed, 21, was a student at Delta State University whose body was found on campus a week ago. The state’s medical examiner ruled it a suicide, but […]
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Critics point out that the federal government has been barred from seeking to influence or direct curricula since 1970.
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Ed. Department Will Give Grants to K-12 Schools That Adopt Right-Wing Curriculum Read Post »
Curricula that challenge oppression are being shut down. How do we resist?
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We Can’t Let White Nationalism Dictate What Is Taught and Learned in Classrooms Read Post »
Trump isn’t even trying to hide his authoritarianism within social acceptability.
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Trump’s Education Plan Seeks to Make Cruel Domination Into “Common Sense” Read Post »
Trump wants a populace unaware of the Black freedom struggle — because it is a guide for defeating his fascist plans.
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Trump Wants to Bury Slavery. My Family Went South to Unearth It. Read Post »
When Trymaine Lee began writing his first book, he didn’t realize that the gun violence he was reporting on was such a central part of his own story. But then he began digging into his family history, only to fully learn about a series of racially motivated murders involving his ancestors. Lee’s book, A Thousand […]
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Being Black in America Almost Killed Me Part 2 Read Post »
Pulitzer Prize-winning journalist Trymaine Lee was in the middle of writing his first book when the unthinkable happened. At 38, a massive heart attack nearly took his life. That near-death experience forced him to reckon with the toll his reporting has taken on his life, including the years he’s spent chronicling gun violence involving Black […]
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College quotas haven’t existed since 1978, but the right keeps people misinformed.
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Racist Lies About College “Quotas” Stoke Support for Trump’s War on Higher Ed Read Post »
Ambassador Tom Barrack said “animalistic” behavior is “the problem with what is happening” in the Middle East.
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Trump Envoy Sparks Fury for Telling Lebanese Journalists Not to Be “Animalistic” Read Post »
For Black August, Mireille Fanon Mendès-France sets the record straight on her father’s revolutionary legacy.
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“Defeatism Has No Place” in Liberation Struggles, Frantz Fanon’s Daughter Says Read Post »
Since resuming office, President Donald Trump has sought to rewrite American history, rejecting any signs of historical division and exalting some of the nation’s most notorious oppressors. On Monday, the latest chapter of this quest unfolded: The National Park Service (NPS) announced that officials will restore and reinstall a Washington, DC, statue of a Confederate […]
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Trump Will Restore a Confederate Monument in the Nation’s Capital Read Post »
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