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...
Methodist Church Same-Sex Split
Leaders of the United Methodist Church, the second-largest Protestant domination in the nation, announced on Friday a plan that would formally split the church after years of division over same-sex marriage. Under the plan, which would sunder a denomination with 13...
Census Numbers Undercut Ascendant America Theory
From the first years of the one-fifth of this century already completed, we’ve been told that a new, ascendant America — more nonwhite, more culturally liberal, more feminist — was going to dominate our politics for years to come. Those predictions have...Obiter Dicta
Last week, the Supreme Court effectively abolished the right to assembly in three Southern states. By refusing to hear an Read More
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FLORIDA: Will a Florida museum on Black history tell whole story? Some worry it won’t Florida’s proposal to create a statewide Black history museum prompted interest, and then glossy reports, Read More