Racist Listserv Post Splits Academia
Scholars and teachers of writing are on the front lines of demographic and other shifts in higher education. They face students with increasingly varied backgrounds and Englishes, and they’re tasked with preparing students to communicate across an increasing variety...
Already Deep in the Politics of Hate
During an Iowa town hall last week, “Beto” O’Rourke, who had pledged to raise the level of national discourse, depicted President Donald Trump’s rhetoric as right out of Nazi Germany. Trump “describes immigrants as ‘rapists’...
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SOUTH CAROLINA: University Music Teacher Composes Work on Confederate Monuments My middle name is a Confederate monument. My great-grandfather was given the Kirkland middle name by his father, who was a confederate soldier who served, at some point, in the North...
Must Fix Crisis at Southern Border
Something must be done. A policy crisis has turned into a security crisis, and now a humanitarian crisis. In February, there were over 76,000 apprehensions at our southern border. This is nearly double the average monthly number (41,735) during the last five years....
Rediscovering CSA Truce Flag
PHILADELPHIA — In a second-floor gallery at the Fabric Workshop and Museum here on Saturday, a woman used a dish towel printed with an image of the Confederate battle flag to clean a layer of dust from a section of the Declaration of Independence inscribed on the...Obiter Dicta
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MISSISSIPPI: Ku Klux Klan items are found as Mississippi Department of Public Safety packs to move Mississippi Department of Public Safety officials stumbled across a cache of Ku Klux Klan Read More