by jpitney | Aug 15, 2024 | Civil Rights
Diana J. Schaub, “Frederick Douglass: The Constitution Militant,” The Georgetown Journal of Law & Public Policy 22 (Winter 2024). In an action almost as momentous as his original escape from enslavement, Frederick Douglass adopted...
by jpitney | Jan 15, 2024 | Civil Rights, Religion
In Why We Can’t Wait, Dr. King reproduced a form by the Alabama Christian Movement for Human Rights, the Birmingham Affiliate of the Southern Christian Leadership Conference, Fred Shuttlesworth, President. I HEREBY PLEDGE MYSELF- MY PERSON AND MY BODY- TO THE...
by jpitney | Aug 22, 2023 | Civil Rights, Conservative', Higher Education
Samuel Abrams at AEI: Difference that drives progress is a spectacular ideal for higher education, but far too many schools are failing in practice. At Columbia University, a DEI office explicitly states that they “are committed to centering race in our pursuit of...
by jpitney | Aug 13, 2023 | Civil Rights, Civility
Neil Vigdor at NYT: Looking to contrast himself with former President Donald J. Trump and Gov. Ron DeSantis of Florida — leading rivals in the race for the Republican nomination who converged on Iowa on Saturday — former Vice President Mike Pence made a play for...
by jpitney | Jan 16, 2023 | African American, Civil Rights, Uncategorized
Daniel Stid: We have to avoid the temptation to domesticate Martin Luther King Jr. It is comforting to see him only as the aspirational dreamer of a color-blind society, a vision especially reassuring to white Americans, and leave things at that. But there was a...
by jpitney | Jun 3, 2022 | Civil Rights, Higher Education
From the Foundation for Individual Rights in Education: FIRE is concerned by the proliferation of college and university policies requiring faculty applicants or current faculty to demonstrate their commitment to “diversity, equity, and inclusion,” often through a...
