The Texas State Board of Education shot down a proposal from a group of educators that suggested schools should refer to slavery as “involuntary relocation” in its curricula.
Just over two years have passed since the murder of George Floyd, an event that unleashed massive protests and initiated a worldwide “racial reckoning,” the effects of which are still ricocheting. However, it’s safe to say that few of these effects have redounded much to the material benefit of people like Floyd, a precariously employed, opiate-addicted member of the black underclass. Instead, the impacts have been felt most powerfully in elite newsrooms, Ivy League universities, cultural institutions, endowed foundations, and corporate boardrooms. In all of these spaces, proclaiming a commitment to “anti-racism” has become practically obligatory.
With the possibility that the Supreme Court may overturn Roe v. Wade, Anne Flaherty turned her ABC News byline over to activists who are complaining that fewer black children will be killed by abortion.
Vice President Kamala Harris s low approval rating is not the product of her time in office, but rather her portrayal in a "white and male media," according to MSNBC s Joy Reid.