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Pinterest and The Knot Won’t Promote Plantation Weddings Anymore Pinterest and the Knot Worldwide, two of the country’s biggest online wedding-planning platforms, are changing their policies to stop promoting wedding venues and content that...
Media Accountability
Late last January, a short video showing Catholic high school boys and an indigenous drummer in Washington created a media and social media flurry. The video documented a confluence of two marches (the March for Life and the Indigenous Peoples March) near the Lincoln...
UNC Faculty Opposes Silent Sam Settlement
A number of UNC faculty departments have released statements in opposition to the Board of Governors’ $2.5 million Silent Sam statue settlement with the North Carolina Division Sons of Confederate Veterans. The Faculty Council, UNC School of Law, School of...
If Baghdad Wants Us Out, Let’s Go!
Fifteen years after the U.S. invaded Iraq to turn Saddam Hussein’s dictatorship into a beacon of democracy, Iraq’s Parliament, amid shouts of “Death to America!” voted to expel all U.S. troops from the country. Though nonbinding, the expulsion...
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SOUTH CAROLINA: Heritage Commission Seeking Nominations The South Carolina African American Heritage Commission is seeking nominations for its annual “Preserving Our Places in History” Awards program, recognizing outstanding efforts to protect, preserve and promote...Obiter Dicta
According to data from the CDC analyzed by the Williams Institute at UCLA, some 3.3% of American high school students Read More
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SOUTH CAROLINA: Charleston historian uncovers date SC flag was first flown. It’s not the design we know today. A Charleston historian has uncovered brand new information about the first recorded Read More