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Harvard, Penn and MIT presidents face blistering criticism from Rep. Burgess Owens, other GOP House committee members
Tuesday, December 5th, 2023
via Deseret News (Utah)Owens, R-Utah, questioned what the academic leaders would do if it was determined that their universities were linked to rising levels of antisemitism. MIT President Sally Kornbluth pushed back
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Harvard, MIT, Penn presidents defend actions in combatting antisemitism on campus
Tuesday, December 5th, 2023
via The Washington Post (New York)The presidents of Harvard, the University of Pennsylvania and the Massachusetts Institute of Technology say they are taking steps to combat antisemitism — and Islamophobia — on campus since the start…
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Sick of district’s ‘lip service,’ Shawnee Mission parents, students urge action on racism
Tuesday, December 5th, 2023
via The Kansas City Star (Kansas)Roughly 80 students, parents and community members attended the school board meeting to continue to demand changes after a white male student shouted racist slurs and attacked a Black female student.
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Why ‘color-blindness’ is dangerous
Tuesday, December 5th, 2023
via Wisconsin Examiner (Wisconsin)It has become popular for politicians to claim that being fair means being "color-blind." But ignoring race perpetuates inequality.
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U.S. Attorneys Office for District Of New Jersey and Justice Department’s Civil Rights Division File Statement of Interest in Religious Land Use Case Involving Orthodox Jewish Congregation
Tuesday, December 5th, 2023
via Shore News Network (New Jersey)NEWARK, N.J. – The U.S. Attorney's Office for the District of New Jersey and the Justice Department's Civil Rights Division and filed a statement of interest
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Justice Department Files Statement of Interest in Religious Land Use Case Involving Orthodox Jewish Congregation
Tuesday, December 5th, 2023
via Shore News Network (New Jersey)The Justice Department's Civil Rights Division and the U.S. Attorney's Office for the District of New Jersey filed a statement of interest today explaining
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Former Utah House Minority Leader Brian King announces candidacy for governor in 2024
Monday, December 4th, 2023
via The Salt Lake Tribune (Utah)Former Utah House Minority Leader Brian King announced his candidacy for governor in 2024.
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Round Rock ISD trustees called to return donations from embattled PAC
Monday, December 4th, 2023
via KXAN (Texas)Two Round Rock Independent School District board members are facing calls to return thousands of campaign dollars they received from a political group, following news of the former president of the…
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This must be San Pedro
Monday, December 4th, 2023
via Los Angeles Times (California)South Bay's maritime city where creativity and community seem to emerge in the most unexpected spaces.
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Plan to add teaching of Holocaust, genocide to science education draws questions from Maine teachers
Monday, December 4th, 2023
via The Associated Press (Maine)Teachers are voicing skepticism about a Maine proposal to update science education standards to incorporate teaching about genocide, eugenics and the Holocaust.
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Trump jump-starts Iowa caucus turnout effort, blasts Biden in Cedar Rapids
Sunday, December 3rd, 2023
via The Gazette (Iowa)Former President Donald Trump urged his supporters to turn out on caucus night, blasted President Joe Biden, ridiculed his Republican challengers several times and boasted about state and national…
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Tougher penalties for rioting, power station attacks among new North Carolina laws starting Friday
Friday, December 1st, 2023
via The Associated Press (North Carolina)All or parts of more than two dozen North Carolina laws approved this year by the General Assembly took effect on Friday.
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Maine Voices: America is not yet ‘the land of the free’
Friday, December 1st, 2023
via Portland Press Herald (Maine)The long and difficult journey to codify equal rights and protections for all citizens, without any exceptions, is ongoing.
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Minneapolis teachers say resolution on Israel-Hamas conflict harmed families, divided their union
Thursday, November 30th, 2023
via Star Tribune (Minnesota)At a Wednesday meeting, the union approved a new resolution that aims to refocus the federation's priorities and unify its members.
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Court order sought to bar Temecula schools from enforcing LGBTQ policy, critical race theory ban
Thursday, November 30th, 2023
via Orange County Register (California)A nonprofit law firm wants to stop Temecula Valley Unified School District policies, including telling parents if their child is transgender.
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Defense bill, passed 62 years in a row, faces partisan minefields in Senate, House
Thursday, November 30th, 2023
via The Kansas City Star (Missouri)The annual Defense authorization bill, which has passed on time 62 years in a row, is getting bogged down in battles over issues ranging from abortion to the government's surveillance authority, threatening to derail its prospects of passing Congress before Christmas. With a battle over the annual spending bills postponed until January, the National...
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For Republican Governors, Civics Is the Latest Education Battleground
Thursday, November 30th, 2023
via The New York Times (New York)Virginia, Florida and South Dakota have new standards that focus on patriotism, Christianity and anti-communism. But debating current events? That's discouraged.
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Speech is freer in California than in Florida, watchdog warns ahead of Newsom-DeSantis debate
Tuesday, November 28th, 2023
via Los Angeles Times (California)A report comparing speech and expression laws in California and Florida finds fault with both states but reserves its harshest judgment for Florida Gov. Ron DeSantis.
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Keke Palmer jokes about chairs flown in from Montgomery during Soul Train Awards
Monday, November 27th, 2023
via al.com (Alabama)Keke Palmer joked about the Montgomery Brawl while hosting the BET Soul Train Awards.
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