13+ hour, 4+ min ago   (513+ words) A Carnegie Mellon University professor is on a voluntary sabbatical while school officials review what they called “hostile and threatening social media posts.” Uju Anya, an associate professor of second language acquisition, is under scrutiny following a 2021 exchange on X…...

3+ day, 20+ hour ago   (177+ words) The Trump administration is proposing to remove the federal tax-exempt status of private schools that use race-based admission or diversity, equity and inclusion in certain school policies and programs The proposed regulation by the U.S. Department of the Treasury and the…...

1+ week, 5+ day ago   (359+ words) You’ve no doubt heard the expression, “That’s an idea so ridiculous only an academic could believe it.” It kept coming to mind as I read Professor John Staddon’s new book Inevitable Differences: An Inquiry into Human Variation. That individuals vary…...

1+ week, 5+ day ago   (144+ words) Retail giant Target came under fire this week for selling a "Blacklight Circus Clown Halloween Costume," which essentially amounted to a kid in blackface dressed like a Jim Crow-era minstrel. Whoops! However, that wasn't the only costume Target was forced…...

1+ week, 6+ day ago   (306+ words) Although the 14th Amendment to the U.S. Constitution and civil rights laws dating back to 1866 prohibit nearly all racial preferences, most Americans oppose these preferences, and Donald Trump was elected vowing to eliminate DEI (diversity, equity, and inclusion) – progressives won't give up....

2+ week, 2+ day ago   (437+ words) Socialism may no longer be a dirty word among Democrats, following a wave of hard-Left primary victories, but "woke" certainly is. Prominent progressive figures have distanced themselves from the politics of 2020, when defunding the police and "decolonising" Thanksgiving became articles…...

2+ week, 4+ day ago   (239+ words) Off target. A popular chain store released it’s modern version of what some shoppers describe as the modern Jim Crow Halloween outfit. Target has spent the last several years learning an uncomfortable lesson about corporate activism: once a company decides…...

2+ week, 5+ day ago   (140+ words) Target has removed a children's Halloween costume after it was widely criticized online over the weekend for evoking racist minstrel imagery. Target has since pulled the costume and told KARE 11, "As a company, we know we got this wrong, and…...

2+ week, 5+ day ago   (259+ words) MINNEAPOLIS — Target has removed a children's Halloween costume after it was widely criticized online over the weekend for evoking racist minstrel imagery. Target has since pulled the costume and told KARE 11, "As a company, we know we got this wrong,…...

2+ week, 6+ day ago   (218+ words) WASHINGTON — Taxpayers are funding $230 million in largely Biden-era grants to study woke “intersectionality” — the assessing of factors such as race and class to rate “privilege’’ and potential discrimination, a new report says. The Defense of Freedom Institute and Legal Insurrection…...