I’m a Blind Woman. Victim Mentality Almost Destroyed My Self-Confidence and My Future.
Despite being apolitical historically, The Salvation Army has begun to promote political and racial ideologies under
Should STEM prioritize racial justice
/in Content/by LesleyCongress is using identity as the basis for evaluating how the United States can best invest in STEM. As Heather MacDonald writes in the New York Post…
What Is Critical Race Theory, Really?
/in Content/by lifelivingstagAs the debate over the teaching of various critical theories in U.S. public schools has heated up, major papers have published wave after wave of articles denying that critical race theory is taught much at all outside law schools, while other writers have drawn the most technical of distinctions between “CRT” and
Salvation Army Imposes Racial Wokeness Within Church’s Ranks
/in Content, What's Happening Now/by lifelivingstagDespite being apolitical historically, The Salvation Army has begun to promote political and racial ideologies under
How does someone act Black?
/in Content/by lifelivingstagThe first time I asked myself that question, I had just been told that I was “acting white” because I read comic books and listened to Jazz rather than playing football and listening to rap like the rest of my Black peers.
The idea of “acting white” has plenty of…
California’s ‘Ethnic Studies’ Gold Rush
/in Content, What's Happening Now/by lifelivingstagHigh-school students in California could soon be required to take at least one semester of something called “ethnic studies” to graduate. The California Senate Education Committee holds hearings this week on Assembly Bill 101, which passed the lower house 58-9 in May. If A.B. 101 becomes law, it will…
Why Juneteenth? Why Now?
/in Content, What's Happening Now/by lifelivingstagWhy did Juneteenth become the 11th federal holiday — the first new holiday in almost four decades? And why now? Federal holidays commemorate highly significant events in America’s history, a major religious holiday, and the start of the New Year. Juneteenth could be considered…
Critical Race Theory is Not the New “Civil Rights Movement.” Quite the Opposite.
/in Content/by lifelivingstagCritical Race Theory is quite prominent in contemporary American political discourse. Several state legislatures have advanced measures to ban
Behavior, not Racism, Explains Differences in Medical Outcomes Between White and Black Americans
/in Content/by lifelivingstagThe American Medical Association came out with a statement on May 11th acknowledging that “racism is a public health threat.” A recent Boston Review article entitled “An Antiracist Agenda for Medicine,” concurred, making the case that racial health outcome discrepancies are evidence of..
Fixating on Race Will Not Solve America’s Deep Problems
/in Content/by lifelivingstagIn Atlanta, a man shot 8 people in massage parlors. 6 of the victims were Asian American, 1 was Hispanic, and 1 was a White American. The motive still remains unclear; one source reported a sex addiction, while the racial hate crime motive remains unresolved. From there, a hashtag erupted: Stop Asian Hate, complete with its own Twitter-sponsored lotus flower.