Observations from a diversity class in 'Trumpland'

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Affirmative Action: Is it Still Necessary?

The Conversation on Cannabis

What We Don’t Know Could Hurt Us: Why Removing Statues is Not Always the Best Solution

In order to boost COVID-19 vaccination rates, the medical community must regain trust within black communities

The White Teacher's Civil Rights Hero

Pro-Life? More Like Pro-Embryo

Harm Reduction: Literally Reducing Harm to People Who Use Drugs and Society as a Whole

The Voice We Need to Hear-An Opinion Analysis of Recent Gender-Based Violence in China

Past Wrongs Require Modern Solutions

Why do men commit suicide more than women?

The Importance of Critical Race Theory in K-12 Education

Controlling Reproduction Affects Black Women Two Times Over

Banning Abortions Kills Women.

Cancel Culture's Next Victim: Unknown

How to Walk and Chew Gum: Protecting Palestinians and Denouncing Antisemitism

American Sports: Should They be Separated from Politics?

Arming Teachers: Not A Solution

Trouble in Liberal Paradise: A Case for the Reintegration of Seattle Public Schools

A Conflict of Interest? Examining congressional trading in a pandemic

“White People and ‘Whiteness’: What a ‘Woke’ Lecture By a ‘Woke’ Professor In ‘Trumpland’ Sounds Like.”

Projecting Fear: How America coped in the aftermath of 9/11

The Battle of Senate Bill 8

Blame. A go-to childish reaction for when "the going gets tough"

'Wokeness' in the wild: Observations from a college diversity class in Trumpland

Roe v. Wade is dead - and only a conservative Supreme Court can revive it. Now think about what that means.

No better time than the present to tell the truth about American military might: We aren't the Avengers (or maybe we are, just not in the way you think)

The women of Afghanistan should feel grateful they don't live in North Korea. Sounds nonsensical? Of course it does

Beyond partisanship: Black people and covid vaccine hesitancy

'Forever Free': How many times must you knock on doors to help vulnerable kids in low-income communities achieve life-altering literacy? As many times as necessary

We can't 'solve all murders' because 1 unpunished dirty cop can cause as much damage as 10 violent drug dealers

Given covid, aren't red states proving that when they say 'pro-life' they really just mean pro-pregnancy?

The black dude in Central Park may have been dangerous. Of course Central Park Amy Cooper had no other choice than to call the cops on him!

Since I watched all three minutes and 53 seconds of this, you should, too

Objectively speaking, Andrew Cuomo should no longer be governor of New York (and CNN owes us a huge apology for its ethical journalistic lapse)

Simone Biles is the ideal role model for men who want to be great even if men are too stupid to understand or too prideful to submit to that truth

Tucker Carlson tried to use his white daughter as a shield the way many white parents are using their kids when talk turns to race and "Critical Race Theory"

Me, Annie Glenn, Joe Biden and what it looks like when an adult with a severe stutter speaks

White supremacy runs so deep not even accomplished black men recognize when they've been infected by and help spread it

When the long arm of the law is necessary to increase individual freedom: covid, unemployment benefits, gas purchases and Fox News hypocrisy

The obvious parallels between our fight against crime and against covid and the lessons we should take from them but probably won't

Five people are arrested for racist comments in Europe. Do we know if speech is, on a practical level, freer here because of the First Amendment or there because of an intolerance for 'ugly' speech?

The professor who swears allegiance to Tucker Carlson and the teacher who uses 'Gone with the wind' to teach the Civil War to 10-year-olds

Would this make you want to follow Jesus?

A quick lesson on the importance of context and implicit bias "blacks"

What would it have done to Jewish kids if they had been taught to revere the Nazis who committed genocide against Jews? Now ask yourself what teaching black kids to revere enslavers has done to them.

Outcomes like these in liberal California make me want to defund the police, too

Just wanted to share that I, too, once won a spelling bee

Is this diversity exercise really 'unspeakably vile'? If so, how?

Y'all, even Ruby Bridges is Critical Race Theory now

Pro-life hypocrisy in South Carolina

A black woman is 'given' a spot a white woman believes the white woman is entitled to

Bill Cosby was not lynched. Stop comparing him to Emmett Till.

Can white privilege be real if white poverty exists?

How it feels to be cancelled by Black Twitter

How to protect free speech rights of low-wage black waiter in red state?

What happens when someone commits murder in the wake of a defunded police department?

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