2015/05/26 – May 26, 1857: Dred Scott won his freedom from slavery two months after the U.S. Supreme Court ruled that he had no right to sue because he was property, not a person. The sons of Scott’s first owner, Peter …..
2015/5/26- The Cleveland Police Department, which has become a flash point in the racially charged debate over police tactics, has agreed to follow some of the most exacting standards in the nation over how and when its officers can use …..
A scholar’s analysis of American culture presumes too much. 2015/5/26-Last week, Gawker interviewed Robin DiAngelo, a professor of multicultural education at Westfield State University. She discussed aspects of her thinking on whiteness, which are set forth at length in her book, What Does it …..
2015/05/26 – The deadline imposed by a local union chapter of teachers in Jackson Public Schools has come and gone, and Superintendent Cedrick Gray has said he will not meet with the group because they refuse to include other stakeholders. The …..
2015/05/26 – Two decades ago, Lani Guinier became a liberal icon when President Bill Clinton proposed—and then withdrew, under conservative pressure—her nomination to head of the Justice Department’s civil-rights division. A racially charged 1993 Wall Street Journal op-ed unfairly labeled Guinier a “quota …..
