Events
The Knights Party Congress
Coming up soon! Aug. 30,31 and Sept. 1st. More details will be posted as they become available.
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‘Old, Male, and Pale’: 2020 Democrats Under Pressure to Hire Minorities
Laura Barrón-López and Alex Thompson, Politico, {snip} In a departure from past elections, Democratic hopefuls are methodically hiring people of color to oversee their operations. Julian Castro, Cory Booker and Kamala Harris have all brought […]
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A Lawsuit Threatens a Groundbreaking School-Desegregation Case
Rachel M. Cohen, The Nation, On a Saturday morning in mid-January, 150 residents crowded inside the Hartford Public Library to commemorate the 30th anniversary of Sheff v. O’Neill, a court case that transformed public education in […]
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Georgetown Students May Pay Reparations for Slavery with New Student Fee
Jennifer Kabbany, College Fix, February 6, 2019 Georgetown University students will soon vote on whether they want to tax themselves to benefit the descendants of slaves sold by the university in the 1830s. Its student […]
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No End to the Number of Celebrities Who Have Donned Blackface
Judy Garland Chris Spargo, Daily Mail, The troubled history of blackface in America is once again in the news cycle after a photo emerged of Virginia governor Ralph Northam and a friend dressed as a […]
Culture
Phoenix Restaurant Says This Is a Photo of Coal Miners. But I See Offensive Blackface
Rashaad Thomas, Arizona Central, Janaury 28, 2019 A few weeks ago, I attended a holiday party at a downtown Phoenix restaurant. I walked around to view the photographs on the wall. Then a photograph caught […]
Culture
Nick Cannon on Interracial Dating: White Women Are a Status of Success
Moriba Cummings, BET, January 30, 2019 {snip} Most recently, Nick Cannon {snip} shared his thoughts on Black men who choose to date white women, exclusively. {snip} In an interview with guest Rizza Islam, posted to […]
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Hundreds of Migrants Cross Arizona Border
Geneva Sands, CNN, In the early morning hours Thursday, several busloads of migrants were dropped off on Highway 2 in Mexico, just south of the Arizona border. “They walked about 100 yards, climbed under and […]
Immigration
Polls Show Voters Are Divided About ‘The Wall,’ United in Opposition to Illegal Immigration, Strongly Favor Cuts to Legal Immigration
by Eric Ruark Americans are bombarded with polls telling them what they think. Often, these polls are presented in a way to convince Americans what they should think. To understand how well a poll captures public opinion the […]
Education
White Nationalist Posters Found Around UTSG
Andy Takagi, The Varsity Posters that read “If everyone is Canadian, then to be Canadian means nothing” were found along St. George Street and Bloor Street on Monday night, in promotion of a group called […]